Eyelash Sedge

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Eyelash Sedge
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Eyelash Sedge ( Carex pilosa )

Systematics
Monocots
Commelinids
Order : Sweet grass (Poales)
Family : Sourgrass family (Cyperaceae)
Genre : Sedges ( Carex )
Type : Eyelash Sedge
Scientific name
Carex pilosa
Scop.

The eyelash sedge ( Carex pilosa ) is a species of the genus Seggen ( Carex ) within the sour grass family (Cyperaceae). It is common in Eurasia .

description

Inflorescence with female and male spikelets
Female ear
Male ear
Foliage with a ciliate border
Female flower, tube open

The eyelash sedge is an evergreen , perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 20 to 40, rarely 60 centimeters. It forms relatively long runners and grows in loose grass . The stems are triangular and smooth. The soft dark green leaves are up to 1 centimeter wide and prostrate, folded twice and ciliate protruding on the edges and on the underside. The inflorescence stem has only short leaves. The basal sheaths are red and do not disintegrate like reticulated fibers.

The eyelash sedge is a multi-year sedge. The terminal spikelet is male, long-stalked, club-shaped and 1.5 to 3 cm long. The two to four female spikelets are up to 3 cm long, stand apart, are loose-flowered and are upright even when the fruit is ripe. The bracts have a long, stem-encompassing sheath. The bracts are brown, egg-shaped and pointed and almost as long as the fruit. The stylus has three scars .

The fruit is 3.5 to 5.5 mm long, spherical to egg-shaped, hairless, from dull green to pale brown in color and is clearly short beaked with two teeth.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 44.

distribution

The eyelash sedge is common in Europe from central France to Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It is a submeridional-montane to temperate, suboceanic flora element .

The main distribution of the eyelash sedge is in the eastern and south-eastern European deciduous forest belt. It reaches the western border of its area in Central Europe in eastern France . It is absent in the Central European lowlands . In the low mountain ranges and in the Alps it only rises to altitudes of around 700 meters, but it is also absent there in certain areas. In Central Europe it is very rare overall, but it often occurs there in small stocks at its locations .

It inhabits light deciduous forests, more rarely mixed forests or very light fir stands. It grows in oak-hornbeam forests (Carpinion betuli) and hornbeam-beech forests (Luzulo-Fagenion). It is moderately demanding.

The batting sedge thrives on low base , low lime, lime-free rare and not too dry, mullreichen loam or clay soils . It avoids full light, long snow cover and late frosts and thrives on praying in partial shade, or even in shade.

literature

  • Rudolf Schubert , Klaus Werner, Hermann Meusel (eds.): Excursion flora for the areas of the GDR and the FRG . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. 13th edition. tape 2 : vascular plants . People and knowledge, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-06-012539-2 (area).
  • Siegmund Seybold (Ed.): Schmeil-Fitschen interactive . CD-ROM, version 1.1. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  190 .
  2. ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Carex pilosa. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Dietmar Aichele, Heinz-Werner Schwegler: The flowering plants of Central Europe . 2nd Edition. tape 5 : Swan flowers to duckweed plants . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-08048-X .

Web links

Commons : Eyelash Sedge ( Carex pilosa )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files