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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Carex careyana
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   CYPERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Carex careyana
 AUTHORITY:  Torr.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SEDGE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: CACA14
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         MESIC
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   CHAMPAIGN       COLES           EDGAR           HARDIN          JACKSON
   JOHNSON         MARION          POPE            UNION
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
 
    INFLORESCENCE:   Spike
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Incomplete  (no petals)  (no sepals)
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Plants in purple-based tufts, basal leaves lanceolate,
     firm, evergreen, bright green. Culms mostly lateral from
     crowns, slender ascending; blades of higher cauline leaves, and of
     bracts, shorter than to longer than sheaths. Pistillate spikes with
     3-8 flowers, with scales purple-white and sharp green midrib.
     Perigynia exceeding the scales, ascending, triangular with
     concave sides, broadly stipitate, finely nerved. Achene triangular,
     with concave sides, short-stipitate, apex short-bent, jointed
     with the style (ref. 2, 6, 23).
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is rare and scattered in southern half of Illinois.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Rare
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      5         MONTH END-      6
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Unisexual   -monoecious
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Terminal spike staminate, lateral spikes 2-3, pistillate.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in Indiana with Acer saccharum and Fagus grandiflora;
     may be disjunct to S. Ill. (ref. 7); especially N-farms,
     wooded limestone slopes; ravines, valleys, slope base (ref. 4).
 
 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.
Mackenzie, K. K.  1940.  North American Cariceae.  2 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Carex careyana
 
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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