Single Record

Species: Carex inops [Carex heliophila] [Carex verecunda] [Carex inops subsp. heliophila]

Comments: NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. So far, long-stolon sedge has been vouchered from 17 locations around the Valley, usually in the montane vegetative zone. e.g., of the South San Juans (Conejos Canyon, Conejos Co, 1935); the Garitas east of Old Woman Creek, 12 miles NNE of Del Norte (Rio Grande Co, 2004); the South Sawatch range, Lone Pine Reservoir, NNW of Trickle Mountain, (Saguache Co, 2004); North Crestone Creek trail (Saguache Co, 1992); just west of Medano Pass (Saguache Co, 1975). Carex inops has a distribution in the lower USA that covers the Great Plains, the Rockies, the Pacific states, and the Great Lakes. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage through New Mexico (usually under the label "Carex inops subsp. heliophila') but not into Texas. C. duriuscula and C. inops, sympatric in the westen ranges of the watershed, are two spcies sometimes confused. But note that the inflorescence of C. duriuscula is so tightly clustered that male and female spikes are hard to distinguish, whereas in the inflorescence of C. inops male and females spikes are separated, with the male usually on top.Allred et al. (2020) has an excellent discussion of their decision to treat this taxon as Carex heliophila).