(First upload on September 2 2007. Last on August 22 2017) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Cyperaceae (カヤツリグサ科) > Carex (スゲ属) > Carex middendorffii
Carex L. (スゲ)Section Acutae (アゼスゲ)Horomuisuge (ホロムイスゲ, 幌向菅), Horomui sedge⊂ Seven Horomui Herbs (ホロムイ七草) Tomarisuge (トマリスゲ, 泊菅)Kurosuge (クロスゲ, 黒菅) Lifeform: perennial sedge → forming tussock (谷地坊主) Distribution: central Honshu - Hokkaido (mostly on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk) Habitat: bog ⇒ wetlands (湿原) var. kirigaminensis (Ohwi) Ohwi (キリガミネスゲ), a putative hybrid between C. middendorffii and C. thunbergii Steud. var. appendiculata (Trautv.) Ohwi |
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[1-4] in post-mined peatland on Sarobetsu wetland (サロベツ湿原), Hokkaido, northern Japan, on May 20/21 2014. The tussock supports biodiversity (Koyama & Tsuyuzaki 2010). [5/6] on May 22 2016. Discarded: in post-mined peatland on Sarobetsu wetland on July 5 2006.
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[7] in Shizukari wetland, southern Hokkaido, on July 7 2017.