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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Carex interior
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   CYPERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Carex interior
 AUTHORITY:  Bailey
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    INLAND SEDGE
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: CAIN11
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         WET
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         MESIC
     WETLAND
       SWAMP
       BOG
       SEDGE MEADOW
       SEEP & SPRING
         CALCAREOUS SEEP
     PRIMARY
       BLUFF
         CLIFF (ROCKY BLUFF)
           LIMESTONE
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     CENTRAL
        Upland oak
           White/Black/Northern Red-  Oak
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   BOONE           CHRISTIAN       COOK            DEKALB          DUPAGE
   KANE            KANKAKEE        LAKE            MCHENRY         MASON
   MENARD          OGLE            PEORIA          POPE            STARK
   TAZEWELL        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:
     Perigynia sans wings, lower part spongy-thickened. Pistillate
     scales about 3/4 length of body of perigynia. Distinctive features
     include: 1) very narrow leaf-blades (1-3 mm w.) and, 2) few-flowered small
     clusters of widely spreading or recurving perigynia.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is occasional in northern 1/2 of Illinois and Christian
     and Pope counties.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      5         MONTH END-      8
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 BIOLOGIC COMMENTS:
     Staminate flowers or remnants are at base of some spikes.
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is found in swampy, calcareous, spring-fed meadows, occasionally on
     dripping limestone ledges of bluff bases. Aboreal North America,
     species at its southern limits in Ozarks of Missouri.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MYCORRHIZAE:   no
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Non-weedy
 
 
 
 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.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Mackenzie, K. K.  1940.  North American Cariceae.  2 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Carex interior
 
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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