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(First upload on July 15 2007. Last on August 20 2014) [ 日本語 | English ]

Carex mertensii Prescott ex Bongard






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Carex L. (スゲ)
Section Atratae
Carex mertensii Prescott ex Bongard, Prescott ex Bongard
var. mertensii, the type

Mertens' sedge
Distribution: western North America, including Mount St. Helens

Habitat: moist-wet soil in forests and meadows

var. urostachys (Franch.) Kukenth.

Kinchakusuge (キンチャクスゲ, 巾着菅)
Distribution: southern Kuril - northern Japan
Syn: Carex urostachys Franch.

Carex mertensii in the Northern Hemisphere


索引
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ST1 ST2 ST3
[1] var. mertensii establsihed on the Pumice Plain, Mount St. Helens, in the summer of 1993. [2/3] var. urostachys at the western slope of Mount Yotei (羊蹄山), central Hokkaido, on June 28 2014.

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