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SPECIES: Carex garberi | Garber Sedge
ABBREVIATION :
CARGAR
SYNONYMS :
NO-ENTRY
SCS PLANT CODE :
CAGA3
COMMON NAMES :
Garber sedge
TAXONOMY :
The currently accepted scientific name of Garber sedge is Carex garberi
Fern. [7,8,15]. It is in the family Cyperaceae.
Recognized subspecies are as follows:
C. g. subsp. garberi
C. g. subsp. bifaria (Fern.) Hulten [1,7]
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 garberi. In: Remainder of Citation
DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex garberi | Garber Sedge
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION :
Garber sedge occurs from Quebec south to New York and west to Indiana.
From Quebec it extends west to British Columbia and north to Alaska. In
the western cordillera Garber sedge extends from British Columbia east
to Alberta and south to California, Nevada, and Idaho [1,4,6].
ECOSYSTEMS :
FRES11 Spruce - fir
FRES15 Oak - hickory
FRES17 Elm - ash - cottonwood
FRES18 Maple - beech - birch
FRES19 Aspen - birch
FRES24 Hemlock - Sitka spruce
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES44 Alpine
STATES :
AK CA ID IN ME MI NV NY ND OH
OR PA UT WA AB BC MB NB ON PQ
SK YT
ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS :
ARCH INDU ISRO PIRO SLBE WRST
BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS :
1 Northern Pacific Border
2 Cascade Mountains
3 Southern Pacific Border
4 Sierra Mountains
6 Upper Basin and Range
8 Northern Rocky Mountains
16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands
KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS :
K001 Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
K002 Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
K003 Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
K004 Fir - hemlock forest
K025 Alder - ash forest
K052 Alpine meadows and barren
K093 Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
K098 Northern floodplain forest
K100 Oak - hickory forest
K106 Northern hardwoods
SAF COVER TYPES :
13 Black spruce - tamarack
16 Aspen
18 Paper birch
19 Gray birch - red maple
24 Hemlock - yellow birch
46 Eastern redcedar
52 White oak - black oak - northern red oak
58 Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
59 Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
62 Silver maple - American elm
95 Black willow
217 Aspen
221 Red alder
223 Sitka spruce
224 Western hemlock
225 Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
226 Coastal true fir - hemlock
252 Paper birch
SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES :
NO-ENTRY
HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES :
NO-ENTRY
VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Carex garberi | Garber 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 garberi | Garber Sedge
GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS :
Garber sedge is a native, perennial, monoecious graminoid. It is
loosely caespitose. Culms are 19.7 to 27.6 inches (0.5-0.7 m) tall [1],
firm, and triangular [6]. Leaves are shorter to much taller than the
culms [4], and 0.8 to 0.16 inches (2-4 mm) wide. The terminal
inflorescence is 0.24 to 0.79 inches (6 to 20 mm) long [1]. The achene
is 0.06 inches (1.5 mm) long. The perigynia surrounding the achene is
lenticular and 0.8 to 0.12 inches (2-3 mm) long [1]. Garber sedge is
stoloniferous or rhizomatous, the rhizome being elongated [1,6].
RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM :
Hemicryptophyte
Geophyte
REGENERATION PROCESSES :
Garber sedge sprouts from perennating buds at the base of the culms [6]
and it reproduces vegetatively by rhizomes [1]. It also reproduces by
seed [6].
SITE CHARACTERISTICS :
Garber sedge is found in swamps, on the margins of ponds [6], and in wet
places [7]. It is found on calcareous sands, gravels, and ledges,
especially near the Great Lakes [4,10,15]. In Michigan it occurs on wet
sandy, gravelly, or marly shores, interdunal flats, rock crevices, and
at the edges of northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis) thickets [15].
In Maine it occurs on riverbanks [12].
SUCCESSIONAL STATUS :
NO-ENTRY
SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT :
Garber sedge blooms from June to August, depending on location and
subspecies [4,10,12].
FIRE ECOLOGY
SPECIES: Carex garberi | Garber Sedge
FIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS :
Although culms are probably killed by fire during the growing season,
Garber sedge probably sprouts from rhizomes [6] after the aerial
portions are burned.
POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY :
Rhizomatous herb, rhizome in soil
Tussock graminoid
FIRE EFFECTS
SPECIES: Carex garberi | Garber Sedge
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT :
Garber 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 garberi | Garber 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. Eyre, F. H., ed. 1980. Forest cover types of the United States and
Canada. Washington, DC: Society of American Foresters. 148 p. [905]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 1392 p. [1603]
7. Hulten, Eric. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1008 p. [13403]
8. Kartesz, John T.; Kartesz, Rosemarie. 1980. A synonymized checklist of
the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Volume
II: The biota of North America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North
Carolina Press; in confederation with Anne H. Lindsey and C. Richie
Bell, North Carolina Botanical Garden. 500 p. [6954]
9. 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]
10. Mohlenbrock, Robert H. 1986. (Revised edition). Guide to the vascular
flora of Illinois. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
507 p. [17383]
11. Raunkiaer, C. 1934. The life forms of plants and statistical plant
geography. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 632 p. [2843]
12. Seymour, Frank Conkling. 1982. The flora of New England. 2d ed.
Phytologia Memoirs 5. Plainfield, NJ: Harold N. Moldenke and Alma L.
Moldenke. 611 p. [7604]
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:
University of Michigan Herbarium. 488 p. [11471]
Index
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