Carex gholsonii
| Carex gholsonii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Carex |
| Species: | C. gholsonii
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| Binomial name | |
| Carex gholsonii Naczi & Cochrane
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Carex gholsonii is a plant species native to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina.[1][2][3]
Carex gholsonii grows in wet places such as marshes, floodplains, stream banks, etc. It is a monoecious, perennial herb up to 75 cm tall. Leaves are green, up to 30 cm long. Pistillate and staminate flowers are borne in separate spikes on the same plant. Perigynia are ellipsoid, olive to brownish-green, up to 4 mm long with a beak up to 0.5 mm long. Achenes are up to 3 mm long.[1][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Flora of North America v 23 p 441, Carex gholsonii
- ^ BONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis, Carex gholsonii
- ^ Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants, Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Carex gholsonii
- ^ Naczi, Robert Francis Cox & Cochrane, Theodore Stuart. 2002. Novon 12(4): 524–526, f. 6.
- ^ photo of isotype of Carex gholsonii at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Citrus County, Florida
