Fr: carex de Bigelow
IU: ivitsukak
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic amphi-Atlantic; n-most Lab. S thr. sw/w/nw/c/s/eNfld.
[=Carex anguillata Drej.]
[=Carex bigelowii Torr. ex Schwein. forma anguillata (Drejer) Fernald]
[=Carex bigelowii Torr. ex Schwein. subsp. hyperborea (Drejer) Böcher]
[=Carex concolor R.Br.]
[=Carex hyperborea Drej.]
[=Carex rigida Gooden. 1794, nom. illeg. hom., non Schrank 1789]
[=Carex rigida Gooden. subsp. inferalpina (Laest.) Gorodkov]
[=Carex rigida Gooden. var. bigelowii (Torr. & Schwein.) Tuck.]
[=Carex rigida Gooden. var. concolor (R.Br.) Kük.]
[=Carex rigida Gooden. var. inferalpina Laest.]
[=Carex saxatilis var. bigelowii (Torr. & Schwein.) Torr.]
=Carex washingtoniana Dewey]
[Porsild and Cody (1980) consider Carex bigelowii to be an arctic, amphi-Atlantic species, which is replaced in the west by the related amphi-Beringian Carex lugens and Carex consimilis. Aiken et al. (1998) place Carex consimilis in synonymy with Carex bigelowii subsp. bigelowii while Carex lugens is treated as Carex bigelowii subsp. lugens (Holm) Egorova.]