Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Cyperaceae/Cypéracées - Sedge Family
Carex maritima Gunnerus
En: seaside sedge, curved sedge
Fr: carex maritime
IU: ivitsukak
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Coastal, arctic amphi-Atlantic; n-most/seLab., S to nw/neNfld.; calc., hal.

[=Carex bucculenta V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex camptotropa V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex incurva Lightf.]
[=Carex incurva Lightf. var. melanocystis (E.Desv.) Kük.]
[=Carex incurva Lightf. var. misera (Kük.) Kük.]
[=Carex incurva Lightf. var. setina Christ]
[=Carex jucunda V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex maritima Gunnerus subsp. setina (Christ) T.V.Egorova]
[=Carex maritima Gunnerus var. melanocystis (E.Desv.) Fernald]
[=Carex maritima Gunnerus var. misera (Kük.) Fernald]
[=Carex maritima Gunnerus var. setina (Christ) Fernald]
[=Carex melanocystis E.Desv.]
[=Carex melanocystis E.Desv. var. misera Kük.] [=Carex misera Phil., nom. illeg.]
[=Carex orthocaula V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex psammogaea Steud.]
[=Carex psychroluta V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex setina (Christ) V.I.Krecz.]
[=Carex transmarina V.I.Krecz.]
[=Caricina incurva (Lightf.) St.-Lag.]
[=Rhaptocalymna incurva (Lightf.) Fedde & J.Schust.]
[=Vignea incurva (Lightf.) Rchb.]
[=Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb.]
[=Vignea maritima (Gunnerus) Rchb. subsp. setina (Christ) Soják]

[Carex maritima was reported from coastal limestone barrens on the Great Northern Peninsula (Bouchard et al., 1991). It has since been documented from Tilting, Fogo Island, neNfld., by J. Maunder. The coastal C. maritima var. setina should not be considered synonymous with the cordilleran C. incurviformis of alpine tundra, A. Reznicek (pers. comm. 1997).]

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