Carex mitchelliana

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Species Distribution Map
Family:CYPERACEAE
Species:Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
Common Name:Mitchell's Sedge
Habitat:**
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Mitchell's Sedge is a native herbaceous perennial in the Sedge family (Cyperaceae). It is found in a few widely scattered locations in Alabama. Mitchell's Sedge occurs in swampy woods, in wet meadows, along the edges of streams and ponds, and in roadside ditches. It is a perennial from a rhizome, forming small clumps of stems. The stems are 3-angled and scabrous. Leaves are linear, green in color, glabrous above, and papillose below. The leaf sheaths are reddish brown in color. Flowers are produced in spikes. There are 2-4 drooping pistillate spikes which often have some staminate florets at their apex and are yellowish-brown in color, and 1-2 staminate spikes that are terminal. The pistillate scales are truncate at their apex and have a scabrous awn. The perigynia are scarcely inflated and loosely enclose the achene. They are papillose over their entire surface. The achenes are not constricted. Mitchell's Sedge is similar to Fringed Sedge (Carex crinita Lamarck), and has been treated as a variety of that species. Fringed Sedge differs by having glabrous leaf sheaths and perigynia with papillae not covering the entire surface. Less than 100 populations of Mitchell's Sedge are known from Massachusetts and New York, south to Mississippi along the Coastal Plain.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, FACW+ (NWI)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyCYPERACEAE - Sedge family
Genus Carex
Species Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis - Mitchell's Sedge

Citation

Citation Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis, Amer. J. Sci. Arts 44(1): 84. 1843.
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Type: USA: NORTH CAROLINA: Chatham Co.: Without data, Jun 1835, Curtis (?) s.n. (holotype: ?; isotype: NY).

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Carex crinita var. mitchelliana Carex crinita Lamarck, var. mitchelliana (M. A. Curtis) Gleason, Phytologia 4: 23. 1952.Carex mitchelliana M. A. Curtis 1843. 

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Calhoun, Coosa, Franklin, Pike

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, JSU, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
JSU111159 Calhoun 16 May 1994 Ballard, J. Mark
3839		 JSU
Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
UWAL0049870 Pike 15 May 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28922		 UWAL
Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
ALNHS00007928 Coosa 20 Apr 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4142		 ALNHS
Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
TROY000025121 Franklin 09 May 2004 Spaulding, Daniel D.
12105		 TROY
Carex mitchelliana M. A. Curtis
ALNHS00007326 Coosa 20 APR 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4142		 ALNHS
Carex mitchelliana M. A. Curtis
TROY000048222 Pike 15 May 2019 Diamond, Alvin R.
28922		 TROY
Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
ALNHS00007324 Coosa 20 APR 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4142		 ALNHS
Carex mitchelliana M.A. Curtis
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