Carex viridula Michx. (syn. Carex serotina Mérat)

Taxonomy: Fam. Cyperaceae// Genus: Carex// Species: Carex viridula Michx.

Determined according to the botanical key provided in Flora Europaea Vol. 5 (Tutin et al., 1980) as Carex serotina Mérat, Nouv. FI. Env. Paris. ed. 2, 2: 54 (1821). The accepted name in The Euro+Med Plantbase (source: Jiménez-Mejías & Luceño, 2011+) is Carex viridula Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 170. 1803.

Distribution: Native to the Temperate and Subarctic Northern Hemisphere -North America, Europe to West Siberia, Central Asia and Himalaya; Kamchatka; Japan; Northwest Africa according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (accepted as Carex oederi var. oederi).

Habitat: Wet habitats – mountain streams, wetlands and peat bogs.

Lifeform: Perrenial; Hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Flowering period:  Summer to early fall: JUL, AUG, SEP.

References:

Carex oederi var. oederi. Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77172399-1 [Accessed 11.09.2022].

Carex viridula. Jiménez-Mejías, P. & Luceño, M. (2011+): Cyperaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the Internet https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0917c958-fd29-4b39-bc15-86b5eddab5df [Accessed 11.09.2022].

Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (1980). Flora Europaea. Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.