Carex paupercula

Trickle - sedge ( Carex magellanica subsp. Irrigua )

The trickle - sedge or Alpine mud sedge ( Carex magellanica subsp. Irrigua, syn. Carex paupercula Michx. ) Is a native to Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Description

The trickle - sedge is a perennial plant. It forms foothills and grows in small, loose clumps. It is 10 to 30 cm, sometimes up to 40 cm high. The dark green leaves are flat and round in cross-section 4 mm wide.

There is a male, pedunculated and two to four apart standing, long -stalked and overhanging female spikelets. These are up to 1 cm long. The lowest bract is at least as long as the inflorescence. The elliptical, lenticular, compressed tubes are only slightly annoying and in section three indistinct edges. The individual flowers are dreinarbig.

Occurrence

The species is subsp by the subspecies in southern South America and the Falkland Islands. magellanica represented subsp circumpolar in the northern hemisphere by the subspecies. irrigua. Here it is submeridional - subalpine common to arctic. It grows in mesotrophic, low lime content between bogs and bog forests.

Documents

• Rafael Govaerts, DA Simpson: World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2007. Kew Database.
• Henning Haeupler, Thomas Muer: Image Atlas of ferns and flowering plants in Germany. 2nd edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4990-2.