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Quill Sedge is a member of the section Ovales, and needs great care to identify. Apparently it has few well-defined characters. In the field the dark brown spikes are separated from each other (the terminal two may touch) and the inflorescence usually arches... Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Carex tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)

Carex tenera var. tenera

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:

Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

COMMON NAME:
Slender Sedge, Quill Sedge

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_cate3_002_lvd

        

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_carex_tenera1

April    Moore County    NC

Inflorescences often flexible and nodding, open, w elongate spikes; rachis usually thin and wiry, per Flora of North America.

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_carex_tenera1b

April    Moore County    NC

Spikes distant or loosely aggregated, ovoid to globose, base tapered or clavate, apex rounded, per Flora of North America.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/13/22):
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Carex tenera

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Carex tenera var. tenera

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-035:
Carex tenera   FAMILY Cyperaceae