Carex appalachica
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| image = Carex appalachica fruiting.JPG
| image_caption = Fruiting
| status = G4
| status_system = TNC
| status_ref = [https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.145590/Carex_appalachica]
| genus = Carex
| species = appalachica
| authority = J.M.Webber & P.W.Ball
}}
Carex appalachica, the Appalachian sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to eastern temperate forests of the United States and Canada.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:45749-2 |title=Carex appalachica J.M.Webber & P.W.Ball |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=6 March 2022 }} The plant is wide-ranging in the American Northeast and Southern Canada while in the southern reaches of their range they are generally restricted to high elevations.{{Cite web |title=NatureServe Explorer 2.0 |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.145590/Carex_appalachica |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=explorer.natureserve.org}} A member of the large genus Carex, commonly known as sedges, this species is a member of the Carex rosea complex within the subgenus Vignea.{{cite journal |last1=Webber |first1=J. M. |last2=Ball |first2=P. W. |year=1984 |title=The taxonomy of the Carex rosea group (Section Phaestoglochin) in Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Botany |volume=62 |issue=10 |pages=2058–2073 |doi=10.1139/b84-281}}
Range
The species ranges from southern Canada and New England west into Ohio and south down the Appalachians and Ridge and Valley to Georgia and Alabama. Within the Northeast of the United States this plant is somewhat common, but at the north of their range in Canada the species becomes rarer. In the center and west of their range the sedge is quite common. However, they are rare at the south of their range and thusly listed in the states of Alabama (S1), Tennessee (S1), Georgia (S1?), and South Carolina (S2).{{Cite web |title=NameThatPlant.net: Carex appalachica |url=http://www.namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=3523 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=www.namethatplant.net}}
Ecology
This species is mostly known from rocky open woods, rock outcrops, and heath balds in the Southeast but favours dry woodlands and slopes farther north.{{Cite web |title=North Carolina Botanical Garden |url=https://floraquest.org/plant/show.php?id_plant=CAAP5 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=floraquest.org}} They typically flower and fruit between May and June.{{Cite web |title=Vascular Plants of North Carolina |url=https://auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov/flora/plant_list.php |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=auth1.dpr.ncparks.gov}}
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Category:Plants described in 1979
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Category:Flora of the Northeastern United States
Category:Flora of the Southeastern United States
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