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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Carex albolutescens
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   CYPERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Carex albolutescens
 AUTHORITY:  Schwein.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SEDGE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: CAAL5
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         MESIC
         WET-MESIC
       FLATWOODS
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         MESIC
     WETLAND
       SWAMP
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     CENTRAL
        Upland oak
           White/Black/Northern Red-  Oak
     NORTHERN
       Northern Hardwoods
           Beech - Sugar Maple
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ALEXANDER       BOONE           CASS            COLES           COOK
   DUPAGE          FULTON          GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK
   HENDERSON       IROQUOIS        JACKSON         KANE            LAKE
   MCHENRY         MACON           MASSAC          MENARD          PEORIA
   PIATT           RICHLAND        ST. CLAIR       UNION           VERMILION
   WILL            WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear
    INFLORESCENCE:   Spike  Head
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Incomplete  (no petals)  (no sepals)
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Culms are well overtopping the leaves; spikelets in elongate loose head;
     plants cespitose sans well-developed rhizomes; perigynia wing-margined
     and 1) obovdict-suborbicular, 2) less than or equal to two times
     long as wide, 3) beaks ascending-appressed, 4) mature are less than
     2 mm wide, mostly <4 mm long-broadest, 5) widest near summit
     versus C. brevior, C. tenera, and C. festucacea. Obovoid
     perigynia body, widest part in top 1/3 and nerved inner perisynium
     face.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is found throughout Illinois.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      5         MONTH END-      8
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Unisexual   -monoecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Most spikes have pistillate flowers at top.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed on sandy soil, prairie, wet ground, depressions,
     swales of upland prairies, and open places.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Carex albolutescens
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015