Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Cyperaceae/Cypéracées - Sedge Family
Carex flava L.
En: yellow sedge, large yellow sedge
Fr: carex jaune
Provincial Status: LN
Range: nTemp. NA (disj.), wEurasia; thr. Nfld., wLab.; calc.

[=Anithista flava (L.) Raf.]
[=Carex echinata Lam. 1779, nom. illeg. hom., non Murray 1770]
[=Carex flava L. forma graminis (L.H.Bailey) Scoggan]
[=Carex flava L. var. fertilis Peck]
[=Carex flava L. var. flava]
[=Carex flava L. var. gaspensis Fernald]
[=Carex flava L. var. graminis L.H.Bailey]
[=Carex flava L. var. laxior (Kük.) Gleason]
[=Carex flavofulva Buerl.]
[=Carex laxior (Kük.) Mack.]
[=Carex lepidocarpa Tausch var. laxior Kük.]
[=Carex oederi Retz. forma graminis (L.H.Bailey) Kük.]
[=Carex viridis Honck.]
[=Proteocarpus flavus (L.) Fedde & J.Schust.]
[=Trasus flavus (L.) Gray]

[Two recent Labrador populations of Carex flava have been documented. The first southeastern Labrador report of C. flava was made by C. Hanel (Hanel 2005), while the first report of C. flava from western Labrador was made by S. Bennett & R. LaPaix in 2012 (Stassinu Stantec Ltd. Partnership 2013).]

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