Carex leporina

Rabbit's foot sedge ( Carex ovalis )

The rabbit's foot sedge ( Carex ovalis syn: Carex leporina ), also known as rabbit and hare foot sedge sedge, a plant belonging to the family of sour grass plants is ( Cyperaceae ). Their flowers are usually pollinated by the wind ( anemophily ), but it is believed that in this sedge also insects could act as pollinators ( entomophily ). Your long-lived seeds are spreading yourself ( Autochorie ). However, it reproduces vegetatively through its rhizomes.

Occurrence

The kalkmeidende rabbit's foot sedge is found on moist to partly waterlogged and often acidophilous meadows, pastures and poor grass. There she is part of small harrows vineyards. However, it also occurs at the edges of ditches or in forest beats. The plant is relatively widespread throughout Germany, only in the dry areas and on calcareous soils it is rare. They also come in the rest of Europe, western Asia and as a neophyte in North America.

Description

The Rabbit's Foot is an evergreen, perennial, herbaceous plant, reaching the heights of growth between 10 to 60 centimeters. It forms no spurs, but it forms small to medium-sized solid clumps that do not fall apart. Their stems have below tangible nodes that are usually 2 to 3 mm thick and appear rounded triangular. The leaves are always shorter than the stem, 2-4 mm wide, rigid, light green to yellow- green colored and internally folded double in the top half. They usually run in a distinct usually long triangular tip. The leaf sheaths are provided with clear dark green nerves lines, but are usually pale, rarely brown. Next flowering shoots are also vegetative shoots with several floors arranged above one another sheet.

The rabbit's foot sedge is a sedge -eared equal. The inflorescence is from 4-7 ears of corn that are up to 4 cm long. The crowded, egg-shaped ears are about 6 to 10 mm long and 5-7 mm wide, yellow brown to brown. Are located on the tip of the spikelet, the female, the male flowers at the base. The elongated pointed bracts are as long as 3 to 5 mm long and 2 mm wide winged hoses that are not spread at maturity. They enclose two scars. The rabbit's foot sedge blooms in June and July.