Cyperaceae/Cypéracées - Sedge Family
Carex houghtoniana Torr. ex Dewey
En: Houghton's sedge, Houghton's woolly sedge, sand sedge
Fr: carex de Houghton
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Temp. NA (disj.); c/neNfld., N to cLab.; acid.
Fr: carex de Houghton
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Temp. NA (disj.); c/neNfld., N to cLab.; acid.
[=Carex houghtonii Torr.]
[Carex houghtoniana is known from dry, sandy river terraces and forest clearings in central Nfld. (Bouchard et al., 1991). First located in Labrador from the Lower Churchill River Valley, in upper sand terrace blowout on aeolian dunes, July 2006, by S.J. Meades & D. Blake, Lower Churchill Rare Plant team (Amec/Jacques-Whitford).]