Carex peckii

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Carex peckii,{{cite web |title=Carex peckii (Peck's Sedge) |url=https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/160058-Carex-peckii |website=iNaturalist.ca |access-date=2021-12-04 |language=en}} Peck's sedge,{{PLANTS|id=CAPE11|taxon=Carex peckii Howe|access-date=2021-12-04}}{{cite web |last1=Brouillet |first1=L. |last2=Coursol |first2=F. |last3=Meades |first3=S.J. |last4=Favreau |first4=M. |last5=Anions |first5=M. |last6=Bélisle |first6=P. |last7=Desmet |first7=P. |title=Carex peckii Howe |url=https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/taxon/5025 |website=VASCAN, the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada |access-date=28 November 2021}} Peck's oak sedge, or white-tinged sedge, is a species of sedge native to Canada and the United States.{{eFloras|1|2423573915|volume=23|Carex peckii |author=Mastrogiuseppe, Joy |author2=Paul E. Rothrock |author3=A. C. Dibble |author4=A. A. Reznicek |access-date=2021-12-04}}

Description

Carex peckii grows in loose clumps, spreading by rhizomes to create colonies.{{cite web |title=Carex peckii (Peck's Sedge): Minnesota Wildflowers |url=https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/grass-sedge-rush/pecks-sedge |website=www.minnesotawildflowers.info |publisher=Minnesota Wildflowers |access-date=4 December 2021 |language=en}}

Range

Carex peckii is native to north-eastern, central and northern North America.{{cite web|title=Carex peckii Howe|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:46832-2

|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |access-date=2021-12-04}}

Habitat

Carex peckii grows in association with trees.{{Michigan Flora|genus=Carex|species=peckii|id=1023|access-date=2021-12-04}} It is found in dry to wet sites.{{cite book |last1=Johnston |first1=Barry |title=Field guide to sedge species of the Rocky Mountain Region The genus Carex in Colorado, Wyoming, western South Dakota, western Nebraska, and western Kansas |date=2001 |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service |location=Denver, Colorado |page=161 |url=https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2001_johnston_b001.pdf |access-date=4 December 2021}}

Ecology

Carex peckii has been identified as a host of the rust fungi Uromyces perigynius.{{cite web |title=Peck's sedge data - Encyclopedia of Life |url=https://eol.org/pages/1123711/data?data_point_uri_id=4492316 |website=eol.org |access-date=4 December 2021}}

Etymology

The specific name 'peckii' commemorates Charles Horton Peck (1833-1917), an American mycologist.{{cite web |title=Carex peckii (Peck's sedge): Go Botany |url=https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/carex/peckii/ |website=gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org |access-date=4 December 2021}}

Taxonomy

The name Carex peckii was first published in the annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the New York State Museum. Albany, NY, 47: 166 in 1894{{cite web |title=Carex peckii Howe|url=https://www.ipni.org/n/46832-2|website=ipni.org |publisher=International Plant Names Index|access-date=2021-12-04}} in the report of the state botanist for the year 1893 written by Charles H. Peck.{{cite book |title=New York State Museum: Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Regents |date=1894 |volume=47 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112204 |publisher=J.B. Lyon |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} The species is included in the list of additions to the herbarium of species not previously described. The species was described by Elliot C. Howe with additional specimens collected by Chester Dewey and Peter D. Knieskern. The type locality of this species is identified as New York. Carex peckii belongs to Carex sect. Acrocystis.

References

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Category:Plants described in 1894

Category:Flora of Northern America