DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex lenticularis var. dolia | Kellog's Sedge 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Carex lenticularis var. dolia occurs in the Coast Mountains of Alaska
and British Columbia and in the Rocky Mountains from Jasper, British
Columbia, south to Glacier National Park [22].  Occurrence in Glacier
National Park, according to Lesica [14] (referring to C. eleusinoides),
is near Hidden Lake Overlook in the Logan Pass area, Mt. Reynolds, and
Sperry Glacier.  Hermann [10] (referring to C. plectocarpa) listed only
the Hidden Lake Overlook, Logan Pass type locality for Glacier National
Park, and Roberts Peak, Juneau as the single Alaska locality.

Carex lenticularis var. lenticularis is the common form of the species
in eastern and northern North America.  It rarely occurs in western
North America except on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in
Idaho and Montana and in the Flathead Lake region of Montana.  C.
lenticularis var. impressa is most abundant in the Sierra Nevada and the
Siskiyou Mountains but is also found in the volcanic peaks of Oregon,
the Wallowa Mountains, Mt. Baker, and the Sawtooth Mountains (WA, OR,
CA, ID UT).  C. lenticularis var. limnophila occurs near the coast from
the Aleutian Islands south to Humboldt County, California (AK, WA, OR,
CA, BC).  C. lenticularis var. lipocarpa, the most common form of the
species in western North America, is widely distributed from the Alaskan
Peninsula south to Tulare County, California, and east to the Rocky
Mountains (CA, NV, UT, CO, WY, MT, ID, OR, WA, AK, BC, AB).


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES44  Alpine


STATES : 
     AK  MT  AB  BC  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GLAC


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren


SAF COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Information relating to C. lenticularis var. dolia is generally lacking.

A Carex lenticularis riparian dominance type is recognized for Montana
[8].  This type is described as occurring at mid to high elevations in
western and central Montana and as an occasional dominant of subalpine
meadows in Glacier National Park.  In this type, C. lenticularis is
often codominant with C. aquatilis and C. rostrata; scattered clumps of
Salix wolfii and Betula glandulosa may be present.  Drier extremes of
this type may contain small amounts of Deschampsia spp., Juncus
balticus, and Aster foliaceus.  Subsequent classification of riparian
and wetland sites in Montana has identified C. lenticularis as an
indicator for C. aquatilis phases of the C. rostrata and C. aquatilis
riparian site types in southwestern Montana [9] and as an indicator for
C. aquatilis and Deschampsia cespitosa phases of the C. aquatilis
habitat type for northwestern Montana [3] and for central and eastern
Montana [7].

Similarly, C. lenticularis is identified as dominant or codominant in a
C. aquatilis community type in the wetland community type classification
for west-central Montana [18].  The forest habitat type associated with
the C. aquatilis community type is Pinus albicaulis/Abies lasiocarpa
[17].

Based on Standley [22], the above classifications probably involved C.
lenticularis var. lipocarpa and perhaps some var. lenticularis (in
northwestern Montana) rather than var. dolia.

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