BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Carex chordorrhiza | Rope-Root Sedge 



GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS : 
Rope-root sedge has thick, cordlike roots.  It grows 4 to 20 inches
(10-50 cm) tall [11].


RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM : 
   Geophyte


REGENERATION PROCESSES : 
NO-ENTRY


SITE CHARACTERISTICS : 
Rope-root sedge grows in wet, calcareous meadows and in Sphagnum bogs
and similar wet sites in interdunal hollows and peaty ground at low
elevations [15].  The species is prevalent on wet sites where often
there is a high summer water table.  It is usually associated with other
sedges (Carex spp.) and cotton-sedges (Eriophorum spp.) [2,5,7,8,10,11].


SUCCESSIONAL STATUS : 
In a permafrost, subarctic bog in Manitoba, vegetation was stripped
during powerline construction.  After 7 years, frequency of rope-root
sedge was 12 percent on undisturbed plots and 14 percent on disturbed
plots, while aerial biomass was 27 pounds per acre (24 kg/ha) on the
undisturbed plots and only 3.4 pounds per acre(3 kg/ha) on the disturbed
plots [13].


SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT : 
Rope-root sedge flowers from early June through July in the Northeast
[11].  Mature fruit is present by late June and July in Montana [7].

Related categories for Species: Carex chordorrhiza | Rope-Root Sedge