Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Cyperaceae/Cypéracées - Sedge Family
Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. var. aquatilis
En: water sedge, leafy tussock sedge
Fr: carex aquatique
IU: ivitsukak
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Circumboreal; thr. Nfld. (except e), N thr. Lab.

[=Carex acutinella Mack.]
[=Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. subsp. aquatilis]
[=Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. var. elatior Bab.]
[=Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. var. plumbeophila Kelso]
[=Carex aquatilis Wahlenb. var. rhomboidea (Holm) Kelso]
[=Carex interimus Maguire]
[=Carex rhomboidea Holm]
[=Carex suksdorfii Kük.]
[=Carex ×subsalina Lepage]
[=Carex variabilis L.H.Bailey]
[=Neskiza aquatilis (Wahlenb.) Raf.]
[=Vignea aquatilis (Wahlenb.) Rchb.]

[Carex ×subsalina Lepage, now considered a synonym of Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis, was reported from Ship Cove, nwNfld. (Fernald 1926, as Carex aquatilis × salina var. pseudofilipendula) and from Québec (Scoggan 1978). Scoggan also reports a hybrid of Carex aquatilis var. aquatilis × Carex aquatalis var. minor (as var. stans) from Hopedale, nLab., which implies the presence of the high arctic var. minor. However, no herbarium specimens of C. aquatilis var. minor (=var. stans) have been located for Labrador and it is likely that the hybrid report is an error in identification (J. Cayouette, pers. comm., 2000).]

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