Carex tumulicola
{{Short description|Species of grass-like plant}}
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|image = Carex tumulicola - VanDusen Botanical Garden - Vancouver, BC - DSC06771.jpg
|parent = Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|display_parents = 3
|taxon = Carex tumulicola
|authority = Mack.
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Carex tumulicola, the splitawn sedge{{cite web |title=Carex tumulicola Mack. |work=PLANTS Profile |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CATU3 |access-date=September 9, 2010}} foothill sedge,"California Native Plants for the Garden;" Bornstein, Fross, & O'Brien; Cachuma Press; 2005; pp. 74-75 or previously Berkeley sedge, is a sedge member of the family Cyperaceae.
Description
Carex tumulicola is found in western North America, from British Columbia to California,. It has a height and width of {{convert|2|ft|cm}}, and is slowly spreading.{{cite journal |author=Kenneth Kent Mackenzie |year=1907 |title=Notes on Carex-II |journal=Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=151–155 |doi=10.2307/2479151 |jstor=2479151}} It is found in meadows and open woodlands, below {{convert|1200|m|ft}}.{{Cite web|title=Carex tumulicola - FNA|url=http://floranorthamerica.org/Carex_tumulicola|access-date=2021-12-22|website=floranorthamerica.org}}
Cultivation
Carex tumulicola is cultivated in the horticulture trade and widely available as a (grass-like) ornamental grass for: traditional and natural landscape drought-tolerant water-conserving lawns and small 'garden-meadows,' native plant and habitat gardens; and various types of municipal, commercial, and agency sustainable landscape and restoration projects.
=Similar species=
Plants grown in the nursery trade are often mislabeled with botanical and common names of similar appearing Carex spp. - while the subtle distinctions are currently [2010] reclarified-assigned by botanists. For example, one considered the species to be closely related to Carex hookeriana, and others to Carex pansa.
References
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External links
- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?7928,7931,8071 Jepson Manual treatment - Carex tumulicola]
- [https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CATU3&mapType=nativity&photoID=catu3_001_ahp.tif USDA: Carex tumulicola]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Carex+tumulicola Carex tumulicola - Photo Gallery]
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Category:Flora of British Columbia
Category:Flora of Washington (state)
Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:Flora of the West Coast of the United States
Category:Plants described in 1907
Category:Taxa named by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie
Category:Garden plants of North America
Category:Drought-tolerant plants
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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