Carex riparia

Shore sedge ( Carex riparia )

The Shore sedge ( Carex riparia ) is a native to Central Europe Seggenart ( Carex ). It is a different eared sedge.

Description

The Shore sedge is a perennial plant, forming long streamers. It is 40 to 120 (rarely 200) cm high. The stems are sharply triangular, erect and rough above. The leaves are 5 to 20 (rarely 30) mm wide, gray-green, flat, but with center groove. At the edge they are rough. The ligule is flat rounded. The basal leaf sheaths are brown and not netzfaserig, but gitteraderig. The remaining leaf sheaths are torn at the ends, but not gitteraderig.

There are 3 to 6 male spikelets that are thick and dichtblütig. The 3-5 female spikelets are 8-12 mm wide and club-shaped. The bottom have a long stem and often nod. Their bracts have a short vagina and are longer than the inflorescence.

The bracts are lanceolate and have a hair tip. they are bright purple-brown with green stripes and are about the same length as the fruit. The pen bears three scars.

The fruit is 5-7 mm long and olive-green to gray- brown. She is bald, vaguely wire and inflated. She has no longitudinal furrows and gradually passes into the short, bidentate beak.

Dissemination

The species occurs in Europe, West and East Asia and in America. In Europe it is a temperate to meridional rates, oceanic Florenelement. It grows in tall sedge vineyards, in ditches and wet meadows on the banks and in alder swamps. She is absent-minded in the plains.

Documents

• Rudolf Schubert, Klaus Werner, Hermann Meusel (ed.): Exkursionsflora the territories of the GDR and the FRG. Founded by Werner Roth painter. 13-14. Edition. Volume 2: vascular plants, people and knowledge, Berlin 1987/1988, ISBN 3-06-012539-2 (Area ).
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil - Fitschen interactive. CD -ROM, Version 1.1, Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6.