Image ID: 13430
Image by: Sorrie, Bruce A.
Image Collection: NCBG Digital Library
PLANT INDEX
ID_PLANT: CAVU2
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carex vulpinoidea
Include in WOTAS: 1
Publish to Web: 1
Last Modified: 2023-09-23
GENUS INDEX
GENUS CODE: CAREX GENUS SCIENTIFIC:Carex GENUS AUTHORITY: L. GENUS COMMON: Sedge GENUS SUMMARY: (by Alan S. Weakley and Bruce A. Sorrie) GENUS IDENTIFICATION: Identification notes: All species of this section in our area form large clonal colonies by rhizomes. GENUS REFERENCES: Mackenzie (1931-1935)=M; Ball & Reznicek in FNA (2002b); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b); Frye & Lea (2001). Key to sections adapted closely from FNA.
FAMILY INDEX
FAMILY CODE: CYPERA FAMILY SCIENTIFIC:Cyperaceae FAMILY AUTHORITY: A.L. de Jussieu 1789 FAMILY COMMON: Sedge Family FAMILY SUMMARY: A family of about 100 genera and 5000 species, mostly herbs, cosmopolitan. FAMILY REFERENCE: Ball, Reznicek, & Murray in FNA (2002b); Muasya et al. (2009); Tucker (1987); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).
FRUITING PERIOD: DISTRIBUTION
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NATIVE RANGE: North America HORTICULTURAL
Plant Sale Text: This sedge is very widespread, found in virtually every part of the country. When planted where happy it will colonize an area, forming lovely clumps of light green foliage and, as the common name suggests, foxy spikes of flowers up to 4 inches long in early summer. This plant plays host to a number of grass skipper caterpillars as well as food source to ducks, geese, rails and sparrows. In the wild this plant is found in openings in floodplain woodlands, swamps, sedge meadows (where else?), streambanks, and (of course) ditches. May be seen in the company of boneset, joe pye, ox-eye daisies, ironweed, rushes, and golden alexander.
This information is derived from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2016 National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.3 (Lichvar, R.W., D.L. Banks, W.N. Kirchner, and N.C. Melvin. 2016. The National Wetland Plant List: 2016 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2016-30: 1-17. Published 28 April 2016. ISSN 2153 733X). Regions: AGCP-Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, AK-Alaska, AW-Arid West, CB-Caribbean, EMP-Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, GP-Great Plains, HI-Hawaii, MW-Midwest, NCNE-Northcentral and Northeast, WMCV-Western Mountains, Valleys & Coast
WEAKLEY FLORA
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carex vulpinoidea
COMMON NAME: Fox Sedge
SYNONYMY: [= F, FNA, G, M, Pa, RAB, S, Tn, Va, W; < C. vulpinoidea var. vulpinoidea - C, K; < C. vulpinoidea - GW, WH3 (also see C. annectens and C. triangularis)]
PHENOLOGY: Jul-Aug.
HABITAT: Low fields, ditches, fens, seeps, tidal freshwater marshes, other wet (and especially disturbed) sites.
COMMENTS: NL (Labrador) west to BC, south to FL, TX, Sonora, and CA.
RANGE MAP:
Key to Map SymbolsABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora) Cyperaceae A.L. de Jussieu 1789 (Sedge Family) SUMMARY: A family of about 100 genera and 5000 species, mostly herbs, cosmopolitan. REFERENCE: Ball, Reznicek, & Murray in FNA (2002b); Muasya et al. (2009); Tucker (1987); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora) Carex L. (Sedge) SUMMARY: (by Alan S. Weakley and Bruce A. Sorrie) REFERENCE: Mackenzie (1931-1935)=M; Ball & Reznicek in FNA (2002b); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b); Frye & Lea (2001). Key to sections adapted closely from FNA.
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
SERNEC: Find Carex vulpinoidea in Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available) UNC SERNEC: Find Carex vulpinoidea in
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium - Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)