Participant Info

Species

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

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

sun sedge, long-stolon sedge, western oak sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1911

LatestDate

2017

Ecosystem

montane

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos

Counties

Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Medano, Poncha

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

La Botica

PhotoRecords

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. Allred et al. (2020) has an excellent discusion of their decision to treat this taxon as Carex heliophila).

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