Fr: carex des littoraux rocheux, carex à bec court
Provincial Status: N
Range: Coastal, nwNfld, sNS; hal., often calc.
[=Carex viridula Michx. subsp. brachyrrhyncha(Celak.) B.Schmid var. saxilittoralis (A.Robertson) Crins]
[=Carex viridula Michx. var. saxilittoralis (A.Robertson) Crins]
[Currently treated as a distinct species in Plant of the World Online (POWO), this species was treated in the Flora of North America (FNA) as a variety of Carex viridula Michx.: Carex viridula subsp. brachyrrhyncha (Celak.) B.Schmid. var. saxilittoralis (A.Robertson) Crins. Carex oederi var. subglosa Fernald is mentioned in synonymy in FNA, but this name was likely a typographic error by Fernald, as he listed Carex oederi Ehrh. subsp. subglobosa (Miel.) K.Richt. (as a variety) in his list of species found, but did not make a new combination in his publication (Fernald 1926, 28: 119, 166). In Europe, Carex oederi var. pulchella Lönnr. (a synonym of C. oederi, recognized in this checklist as distinct) is a dwarf, primarily halophytic, seashore taxon. C. saxilittoralis, also a dwarf halophytic shoreline taxon, should be compared to var. pulchella to see if it would be better placed in synonymy under C. oederi.]