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Introductory
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
ABBREVIATION :
CARCOC
SYNONYMS :
NO-ENTRY
SCS PLANT CODE :
CACO10
COMMON NAMES :
low northern sedge
TAXONOMY :
The currently accepted scientific name of low northern sedge is Carex
concinna R. Br. [5,8,9]. It is in the family Cyperaceae. There are no
accepted infrataxa.
LIFE FORM :
Graminoid
FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS :
No special status
OTHER STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
COMPILED BY AND DATE :
Roberta A. Walsh, April 1994
LAST REVISED BY AND DATE :
NO-ENTRY
AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION :
Walsh, Roberta A. 1994. Carex concinna. In: Remainder of Citation
DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
Low northern sedge occurs from Newfoundland and Quebec west to Alaska
[5,9]. From Quebec it extends south to northern Michigan and
northeastern Wisconsin [5,7]. From Alaska it extends south to Oregon
and then east to South Dakota and Colorado [1,7,8,9].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES10 White - red - jack pine
FRES18 Maple - beech - birch
FRES19 Aspen - birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES23 Fir - spruce
FRES44 Alpine
STATES :
AK CO ID MI MT ND OR SD WA WI
WY AB BC MB NB NF NT ON PQ SK
YT
ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS :
DENA SLBE WRST YELL YUCH
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
1 Northern Pacific Border
2 Cascade Mountains
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
9 Middle Rocky Mountains
10 Wyoming Basin
11 Southern Rocky Mountains
15 Black Hills Uplift
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K012 Douglas-fir forest
K015 Western spruce - fir forest
K017 Black Hills pine forest
K018 Pine - Douglas-fir forest
K052 Alpine meadows and barren
K095 Great Lakes pine forest
K106 Northern hardwoods
K107 Northern hardwoods - fir forest
SAF COVER TYPES :
237 Interior ponderosa pine
244 Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
Low northern sedge was not listed as an indicator or dominant in
available literature.
Low northern sedge in Michigan is found at the edges of northern
white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
thickets at the northern ends of Michigan and Huron lakes. Associated
species include bristle-leaved sedge (Carex eburnea), hairlike sedge (C.
capillaris), twinflower (Linnaea borealis), and bearberry
(Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) [15].
VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE :
NO-ENTRY
IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE :
NO-ENTRY
PALATABILITY :
NO-ENTRY
NUTRITIONAL VALUE :
NO-ENTRY
COVER VALUE :
NO-ENTRY
VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES :
NO-ENTRY
OTHER USES AND VALUES :
NO-ENTRY
MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS :
NO-ENTRY
BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS :
Low northern sedge is a native, perennial, monoecious graminoid [8]. It
is loosely caespitose [5]. Culms are 2 to 8 inches (5 to 20 cm) tall
[1] and triangular [8]. Leaves are mostly basal, five to nine per culm
[9], 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) long, and 0.04 to 0.12 inches (1-3 mm)
wide [7]. Inflorescences are both terminal and lateral and 0.12 to 0.28
inches (3 to 7 mm) long [5]. The achene is 0.06 inches (1.5 mm) long
[8]. The perigynia surrounding the achene is obtusely triangular and
0.12 inches (3 mm) long [1]. Low northern sedge has slender, scaly,
often long rhizomes or stolons [1,9,10].
RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM :
Hemicryptophyte
Geophyte
REGENERATION PROCESSES :
Low northern sedge sprouts from perennating buds at the base of the
culms [8] and from rhizomes [10]. It also reproduces by seed [9].
SITE CHARACTERISTICS :
Low northern sedge is found in forests [10], open woods [3], and
clearings [9]. It occurs on stony, dry [8,10], often calcareous soils
[5,9,10,15].
In the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Basin, low northern sedge is found in
rich, peaty soils chiefly in calcareous areas at elevations of 5,000 to
11,000 feet (1,524-3,353 m) [9].
SUCCESSIONAL STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT :
Low northern sedge blooms in June and July in the north-central and
northeastern United States and adjacent Canada [5].
FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS :
Since low northern sedge can reproduce vegetatively [8], it probably
sprouts from rhizomes after aerial protions are burned. Where thick
tufts form, they may protect basal buds from fire-caused damage.
POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY :
Rhizomatous herb, rhizome in soil
Tussock graminoid
FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT :
Low northern sedge culms are probably killed by fire during the growing
season.
DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT :
NO-ENTRY
PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE :
NO-ENTRY
DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE :
NO-ENTRY
FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS :
NO-ENTRY
REFERENCES
SPECIES: Carex concinna | Low Northern Sedge
REFERENCES :
1. Anderson, J. P. 1959. Flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada.
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. 543 p. [9928]
2. Bernard, Stephen R.; Brown, Kenneth F. 1977. Distribution of mammals,
reptiles, and amphibians by BLM physiographic regions and A.W. Kuchler's
associations for the eleven western states. Tech. Note 301. Denver, CO:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 169 p.
[434]
3. Dorn, Robert D. 1984. Vascular plants of Montana. Cheyenne, WY: Mountain
West Publishing. 276 p. [819]
4. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and
Canada. Washington, DC: Society of American Foresters. 148 p. [905]
5. Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. [Corrections
supplied by R. C. Rollins]. Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press. 1632 p.
(Dudley, Theodore R., gen. ed.; Biosystematics, Floristic & Phylogeny
Series; vol. 2). [14935]
6. Garrison, George A.; Bjugstad, Ardell J.; Duncan, Don A.; [and others].
1977. Vegetation and environmental features of forest and range
ecosystems. Agric. Handb. 475. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service. 68 p. [998]
7. Gleason, Henry A.; Cronquist, Arthur. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of
northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 2nd ed. New York: New
York Botanical Garden. 910 p. [20329]
8. Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 1392 p. [1603]
9. Raphael, Martin G. 1988. Habitat associations of small mammals in a
subalpine forest, southeastern Wyoming. In: Szaro, Robert C.; Severson,
Kieth E.; Patton, David R., technical coordinators. Management of
amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals in North America: Proceedings of
the symposium; 1988 July 19-21; Flagstaff, AZ. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-166.
Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky
Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station: 359-367. [7124]
10. Hulten, Eric. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1008 p. [13403]
11. Kuchler, A. W. 1964. Manual to accompany the map of potential vegetation
of the conterminous United States. Special Publication No. 36. New York:
American Geographical Society. 77 p. [1384]
12. Raunkiaer, C. 1934. The life forms of plants and statistical plant
geography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 632 p. [2843]
13. Stickney, Peter F. 1989. Seral origin of species originating in northern
Rocky Mountain forests. Unpublished draft on file at: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, Fire
Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT; RWU 4403 files. 7 p. [20090]
14. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. 1982.
National list of scientific plant names. Vol. 1. List of plant names.
SCS-TP-159. Washington, DC. 416 p. [11573]
15. Voss, Edward G. 1972. Michigan flora. Part I. Gymnosperms and monocots.
Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Institute of Science; Ann Arbor, MI:
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Index
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