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Carex alba Scopoli, syn.: Carex ajanensis Vorosch, Carex inclusa Turcz.ex Boott, Carex argentea J.F. Gmel.White Sedge, DE: Weie SeggeSlo.: beli aDat.: May 24. 2011Lat.: 46.36070 Long.: 13.70105Code: Bot_516/2011_DSC7813 Habitat: upper, west edge of an alpine pasture surrounded by mixed wood (Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, Ostrya carpinifolia dominant trees), spreading also somewhat into the wood; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, colluvial, skeletal ground; mostly in shade; dry and relatively warm place; elevation 630 m (2.070 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, Na Melu place, near cottage Trenta 2b, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comment: Carex alba is a beautiful sedge and relatively easy to recognized among very numerous taxa in the genus Carex. In the uppermost elongated inflorescence, the flowers at the bottom are male. All others above them and on all other inflorescences lower on the flower stalk are female. These pictures show its habit when it is in fruit but in not yet fully ripe state. When fully developed, perigynia (female flower fruits) become shiny dark brown, almost black. In the spring, when in bloom, the plants look quite differently having dominant whitish looking inflorescences. Hence its species name in several languages namely 'white'. It is an evergreen plant, many times forming freshly green, soft mats of considerable size.It can be found in most of European countries, however, mitigating most southern and most northern ones. To the east it is spread to Russian Far East regions.Ref.:(1) J. Koopman, Carex Europaea, The genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in Europa,1, Margraf Publ. (2011), p 38 and p 582.(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1119.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 810. (4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 818.
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Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe, syn.: Eriophorum altaicum Meinsh.Scheuchzer's Cottongrass, White Cottongrass, DE: Alpen-Wollgras, Scheuchzer-WollgrasSlo.: Scheuchzerjev munec Dat.: July 3. 2017Lat.: 46.43893 Long.: 13.64412Code: Bot_1071/2017_DSC02193Habitat: small high mountain march; flat terrain; calcareous ground with some siliceous rocks; full sun, wet ground; elevation 1.970 m (6.450 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0-2 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Mt. Mangart plateau, between the largest snow valley and Red rock place; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Eriophorum scheuchzeri is a true Arctic plant. It is present all around the northern hemisphere and particularly common far north, where it sometimes forms large fields. Zillions of its beautifully silver-white fruit heads look like snow covered ground. However, it is present also in boreal regions. Of cause, in southern regions of its occurrence it can survive only in cold high mountain conditions. In Slovenia Eriophorum scheuchzeri is a rare and protected plant, constricted to acid bog habitats in the Alps. Such places with rarely less than 2.000 m elevation are rare in my country. Hence each encounter with this beautiful plant is an inimitable experience. Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.Ref.:(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1088.(2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 799. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 766.(4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 1366.
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Carex canescens (syn. Carex curta) developing fruits in shallow pools south of Lake Botsford, Tasmania.
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Snow Hill, Florida, United States
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia
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Cassia, Florida, United States
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Orinda, California, United States
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Carex distansDistant SedgeSlo.: razmaknjenoklasi aDate: May 26. 2009Lat.: 46.31068 Long.: 13.57472Code: Bot_345/2009-8610/Bot_346/2009-8743Habitat: On a long time ago abandoned chart road, tall herbfields and bushes, partly shady, wet ground on the right bank of Slatenek stream, precipitations ~3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 540 m (1.800 ), alpine phytogeographical region. Place: Slatenek gorge, where it transverses Slatenek stream, southwest of Mt. Javorek, 1.557 m (5.109 feet), East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia ECComment: Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.
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Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Drenthe, Netherlands
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Kaluh or Saltmarsh bulrushCyperaceae (Sedge family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (All the main islands except Lnai and Kahoolawe)Oahu (Cultivated)This indigenous sedge is not known to be used by early settlers in the Hawaiian Islands. However, in other parts of the world the seeds were used as a food source and the leaves were used in making baskets, mats, sandals, and clothing.EtymologyBolboschoenus is from the Greek bolbos, swelling or bulb, and schoinos, rush in reference to the ligneous (woody) tubers at the culm (aerial part of the plant) bases.The specific epithet martinus, growing by the sea, is in reference to its brackish-freshwater habitat.NPH00007
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Bolboschoenus_maritimus
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Eriophorum angustifoliumCommon CottongrassSlo.: ozkolistni munecDate: June 30. 2009Lat.: 46.42023 Long.: 13.60220Code: Bot_359/2009-0633Habitat: South oriented mountain slope, light wood, mainly conifers, wet ground, partly shaded, precipitations ~2.600 mm/year, average temperature 4-6 deg C, elevation 1.030 m (3.400 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.Place: Above the road from village Strmec to Predel pass, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia ECComment: Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.
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Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia
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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Shorobe, North-West, Botswana
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Carex breviculmis (shortstem sedge) growing on dolerite rockplate. Bald Ridge, Eastern Tiers, Tasmania.
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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica