Fr: carex de Host
Provincial Status: N
Range: Temp. amphi-Atlantic disjunct; N to w/nw/sNfld.; calc.
[=Carex armena Boiss.]
[=Carex biformis F.W.Schultz]
[=Carex biformis F.W.Schultz var. fertilis F.W.Schultz]
[=Carex distans L. var. hostiana (DC.) Fiori]
[=Carex fulva Host 1813, hom. illeg. hom., non Gooden. 1794]
[=Carex fulvescens Mack.]
[=Carex greeniana Dewey]
[=Carex halophila Heuff. 1863, nom. illeg. hom., non F.Nyl. 1844]
[=Carex hornschuchiana Hoppe]
[=Carex hornschuchiana Hoppe var. fulva Nyman]
[=Carex hornschuchiana Hoppe var. laurentiana Fernald & Wiegand (type: Table Mt., wNfld.)]
[=Carex hostiana DC. var. laurentiana (Fernald & Wiegand) Fernald & Wiegand]
[=Trasus fulvus Gray]
[=Trasus hostianus (DC.) Gray]
[Carex hostiana occurs in calcareous peatlands and shores, primarily in western Nfld.; it also occurs on the Great Northern and Burin Peninsulas (Bouchard et al., 1991).]