Carex acuta
{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Carex acuta
| authority = L.
| synonyms = {{Collapsible list|
Carex acuta f. prolixa (Fries) Sylven
Carex fuscovaginata Kük
Carex graciliformis V.I. Krecz.
Carex gracilis R. Br
Carex prolixa
Carex saxatilis laxa (Trautv.) Kalela{{Cite web |url = http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_pick?name=Carex+acuta |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130802223406/http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_pick?name=Carex+acuta |url-status = dead |archive-date = August 2, 2013 |title = Carex acuta L. |accessdate = 2007-12-31 |work = Nomenclatural Data Base |publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO with Web TROPICOS}}
Carex stricta Gooden., non Lam.
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Carex acuta (common names acute sedge, slender tufted-sedge, or slim sedge) is a perennial, tussock-forming plant in the Carex, or sedge family.
Description
Carex acuta is a tuft-forming, slender, rhizomatous plant with narrow, flat leaves reaching up to 90 cm in height. Stems are three-angled. Inflorescence is a spike, with brown flowers appearing in late spring and summer.{{Cite web |title=Carex acuta {{!}} slender-tufted sedge Herbaceous Perennial/RHS |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/139088/carex-acuta/details |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.rhs.org.uk |language=en-gb}}{{Cite web |title=Slender Tufted-sedge {{!}} NatureSpot |url=https://www.naturespot.org/species/slender-tufted-sedge |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=www.naturespot.org}}
Distribution and habitat
It can be found growing on the margins of rivers and lakes in the Palaearctic terrestrial ecoregions in beds of wet, alkaline or slightly acid depressions with mineral soil.
Carex acuta does not tolerate prolonged desiccation. The community is distributed, in particular, in northern France, the Low Countries, Central Europe south to the Sava and Drava valleys of Croatia, the northern Morava valley of Serbia and Romania, north to Poland, the Kaliningrad District, Lithuania and Latvia, in southern Scandinavia, in the Dnieper basin of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus, in the lower Volga Valley.{{Cite web
| url = http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats-factsheet.jsp?idHabitat=5131
| title = Factsheet for Slender tufted sedge beds
| accessdate = 2007-12-31
| last = European Environment Agency (EEA)
| first = Devillers, P., Devillers-Terschuren, J. and Vander Linden, C.
| authorlink = European Environment Agency
| year = 2001
| work = EUNIS biodiversity database
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Carex acuta|Carex acuta}}
- {{Cite web
| url = http://jncc.gov.uk/page-3257-type=speciesList-theme=textonly-p=30-filter=AnalysisID=21 AND DatasetID=31
| title = Observations of Slender Tufted-sedge Carex acuta
| accessdate = 2011-04-06
| author = Joint Nature Conservation Committee
| authorlink = Joint Nature Conservation Committee
| date = 1958–1998
| work = Wildlife Statistics Online
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Category:Flora of North Africa
Category:Plants described in 1753
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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