Carex stipata
{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}
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| image = Carex stipata (4155811402).jpg
| image_caption = Developing seeds
| image2 = Carex stipata AWP-SW-260.png
| image2_caption = Botanical illustration
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Carex
| species = stipata
| authority = Muhl. ex Willd.Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 4: 233 (1805)
| synonyms = *Loncoperis stipata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Raf.
- Vignea stipata (Muhl. ex Willd.) Rchb.
}}
Carex stipata, variously called the prickly sedge, awl-fruited sedge, awlfruit sedge, owlfruit sedge, swamp sedge, sawbeak sedge, stalk-grain sedge and common fox sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Canada, the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Far Eastern Russia.{{cite web |url=https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/grass-sedge-rush/awl-fruited-sedge |title=Carex stipata (Awl-fruited Sedge) |author= |date= |website=MinnesotaWildflowers.info |publisher=Minnesota Wildflowers |access-date=3 January 2021 }}{{cite web |url=https://garden.org/plants/view/80765/Swamp-Sedge-Carex-stipata |title=Swamp Sedge (Carex stipata) in the Sedges Database |author= |date= |website=Plants Database |publisher=The National Gardening Association |access-date=3 January 2021 }}{{cite web |url=https://warcapps.usgs.gov/PlantID/Species/Details/3949 |title=Carex stipata |author= |date= |website=Plants of Louisiana |publisher=USGS |access-date=3 January 2021 }}{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20008061-1 |title=Carex stipata Muhl. ex Willd. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=3 January 2021 }} It is a wetland obligate.{{cite journal |title=Perigynium removal improves seed germination in awl-fruit sedge (Carex stipata) |year=2011 |last1=Hough-Snee |first1=Nate |last2=Cooper |first2=Derrick D. |journal=Native Plants Journal |volume=12 |pages=41–44 |doi=10.3368/npj.12.1.41 |s2cid=86328732 }}
Description
Carex stipata is a tuft-forming, grass-like plant, reaching 2 to 3 ft. in height. Leaves are coarse and elongate. The inflorescence is a spike, with a cluster of brown seed capsules high on each stem. The fruit is an achene.{{Cite web |title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=cast5 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.wildflower.org}}
Distribution and habitat
Carex stipata favours wetland conditions, such as woodland swales, floodplains, marshes, water meadows, ditches and the area around streams and ponds.{{Cite web |title=Carex stipata (Awl-fruited Sedge): Minnesota Wildflowers |url=https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/grass-sedge-rush/awl-fruited-sedge |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=www.minnesotawildflowers.info |language=en}}
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