Participant Info

Species

Carex brunnescens [Carex canescens subsp. brunnescens] [Carex curta var. brunnescens] [Vignea brunnescens]

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

brownish sedge, green bog sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1978

LatestDate

1984

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans

Counties

Mineral, Saguache

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. From the Watershed, vouchers for brownish sedge have been submitted for only two locations: Perry Creek "1.0 km upstream from the wrecked biplane" (Saguache Co, 198), and the outlet creek for Tucker Ponds (Mineral Co, 1978). Carex brunnescens is a variable and successful species, with circumboreal presence. In the USA, its distribution follows a pattern typical of many sedges: the Rockies up to the Canadian border, and across the northern third of the country to Maine, with an extension down the Appalachians. Except for a few locations in Sandoval Co, New Mexico, the Watershed occurrences would constitute the only ones, so far, in the Rio Grande drainage.

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