Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants

Carex species at Salicicola by artificial groups (after L.A. Standley 2011. Field Guide to Carex of New England)

Group 1

• Carex leptalea Wahlenb. delicate sedge

Group 2

• Carex annectens (Bickn.) Bickn. yellow-fruited fox sedge

• Carex vulpinoidea Michaux   = C. setacea Dewey fox sedge

Group 3

• Carex billingsii (Knight) C.D. Kirschbaum   = C. trisperma var. billingsii Knight three-seeded bog sedge

• Carex bromoides Schkuhr ex Willd. brome-like sedge

• Carex canescens ssp. disjuncta (Fern.) Toivonen silvery bog sedge

• Carex deweyana Schweinitz round-fruited short-scaled sedge

• Carex trisperma Dewey three-seeded sedge

Group 4

• Carex atlantica ssp. capillacea (Bailey) Reznicek   = C. howei Mackenzie threadstem sedge

• Carex rosea Schkuhr ex Willd. big star sedge

Group 5

• Carex argyrantha Tuckermann silvery sedge

• Carex silicea Olney sea-beach sedge

Group 6

• Carex longii Mackenzie Long's sedge

• Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd. broom sedge

• Carex sp. (hybrid?)

• Carex tribuloides Wahlenb. blunt broom sedge

Group 7

• Carex cumulata (Bailley) Mackenzie crowded sedge

• Carex hormathodes Fernald saltmarsh straw sedge

• Carex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr straw sedge

Group 8

• Carex arctata Boott ex Hooker northern wood sedge

• Carex debilis var. rudgei Bayley northern stalked sedge

• Carex gracillima Schwein. slender drooping sedge

Group 9

• Carex swanii (Fern.) Mackenzie Swan's sedge

• Carex typhina Michaux cat-tail sedge

• Carex virescens Muhl. ex Willd. ribbed sedge

Group 10

• Carex tonsa (Fern.) Bickn.   = C. rugosperma var. tonsa (Fern.) E. Voss stiff-leaved sand sedge, shaved sedge

Group 11

• Carex folliculata L. long-culmed sedge

• Carex lacustris Willd. marsh sedge, lakeside sedge

Group 12

• Carex crinita Lam. fringed sedge

• Carex gynandra Schwein.   = C. crinita var. gynandra (Schwein.) Schwein. et Torrey northern awned sedge

• Carex paleacea Schreber ex Wahlenb. saltmarsh sedge

• Carex torta Boott ex Tuckerman riverside sedge

Group 13

• Carex comosa Boott bristly sedge

Group 14

• Carex haydenii Dewey Hayden's sedge

• Carex stricta Lam. tussock sedge

Group 15

• Carex albicans var. emmonsii J. Rettig   = C. emmonsii Dewey ex Torrey Emmons' sedge

• Carex communis Bailey common sedge

• Carex lucorum Willd. ex Link   = Carex pensylvanica var distans Peck long-beaked Pennsylvania sedge

• Carex pensylvanica Lam. Pennsylvania sedge

• Carex vestita Willd. velvet-fruited sedge

Group 16

• Carex albursina Sheldon white bear sedge

• Carex plantaginea Lam. plantain-leaf sedge

• Carex platyphylla Carey broad-leaved woodland sedge

Group 17

Group 18

• Carex blanda Dewey woodland sedge

• Carex laxiflora Lam. loose-flowered woodland sedge

Group 19

• Carex lasiocarpa var. americana Fern. slender woolly-fruited sedge

Group 20

• Carex intumescens Rudge bladder-sedge or swamp sedge

Group 21

• Carex bullata Schkuhr ex Willd. button sedge

• Carex lupuliformis Sartwell ex Dewey

• Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. hop sedge

• Carex lurida Wahlenb. sallow sedge

• Carex utriculata Boott   = C. rostrata var. utriculata (Boott) Bailey bottle sedge