Carex utriculata

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Cyperaceae
Subfamilia: Cyperoideae
Tribus: Cariceae
Genus: Carex
Species: Carex utriculata
Name

Carex utriculata Boott in W.J.Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 221 (1839).
Synonyms

Homotypic
Carex vesicaria var. utriculata (Boott) Dewey, Class-book Bot.: 428 (1845).
Carex ampullacea var. utriculata (Boott) J.Carey in A.Gray, Manual: 566 (1848).
Carex rostrata var. utriculata (Boott) L.H.Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 67 (1886).
Carex rostrata subsp. utriculata (Boott) Asch. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 2(2): 210 (1903).
Carex inflata var. utriculata (Boott) Druce, Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 9(1): 141 (1930).
Heterotypic
Carex bullata var. laevirostris Blytt ex Fr., Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. 2: 59 (1839).
Carex utriculata var. minor Boott in W.J.Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 221 (1839).
Carex bullata subsp. laevirostris (Blytt ex Fr.) Fr., Bot. Not (1844): 24 (1844).
Carex rhynchophysa Fisch., C.A.Mey. & Avé-Lall., Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 9(Suppl.): 9 (1844).
Carex robusta F.Nyl., Spic. Pl. Fenn. 2: 16 (1844), pro syn.
Carex laevirostris (Blytt ex Fr.) Andersson, Pl. Scand. 1: 17 (1849).
Carex vesicaria subsp. lacustris Th.Fr., Bot. Not (1857): 200 (1857).
Carex utriculata var. sparsiflora Dewey in A.Wood, Class-book Bot.: 768 (1861).
Carex utriculata var. globosa Olney in S.Watson, Botany [Fortieth Parallel]: 374 (1871).
Carex ventricosa Franch., Bull. Annuel Soc. Philom. Paris, sér. 8, 7: 91 (1895), nom. illeg.
Carex laevirostris f. gracilior Kük. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 20(38): 724 (1909).
Carex rostrata f. minor (Boott) Kük. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 20(38): 722 (1909).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Labrador, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Prince Edward I., Qubec, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon
Continental: Eurasia
Altay, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, Finland, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sweden, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Boott, M.B. in W. J. Hooker 1839. Flora Boreali-Americana 2: 221.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Carex utriculata in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 04. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Carex utriculata. Published online. Accessed: Feb 04 2020.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Carex utriculata in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Feb 04. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Carex utriculata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 Feb 2020.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Carex utriculata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 13 Aug 2006.

Vernacular names
English: Northwest Territory sedge, Beaked sedge, Bottle sedge, Common yellow lake sedge
français: Carex utriculé
русский: Осока мешочковая

Carex utriculata is a species of sedge known as Northwest Territory sedge[1] and common yellow lake sedge.[2]

Distribution

This sedge is native to the northern half of North America, including most all of Canada and the northern United States, and down to montane California.[1] It is also found in northern Europe and northern Asia. It is a common plant in many types of wetland habitat.
Description

Carex utriculata produces stems exceeding 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in maximum height from a thick network of long rhizomes. The inflorescence is a cylindrical mass of flowers up to about 40 cm (16 in) long with an accompanying leaf-like bract which is generally longer than the flower spike. Each inflorescence bears up to 200 developing fruits, each enclosed in a shiny green, golden, or brown perigynium.

Early-season, male above female spikes

At Hamilton Lake edge, Sierra Nevada

References

USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Carex utriculata". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
Wilhelm, Gerould; Rericha, Laura (2017). Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis. Indiana Academy of Sciences.