Analogue Sedge

Rhizomes coarse, 1.5–2.8 mm thick, typically with long, unbranched segments from which shoots arise singly every few nodes. Culms sharply trigonous, (10–)20–80 cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths dark brown; sheaths with hyaline inner band, apex prolonged 0.3–1.6 mm beyond base of blade, glabrous; ligules 0.6–2.7 mm; blades 1–3.7 mm wide. Inflorescences dense to elongate, 1–3 cm; spikes 4–12(–18), usually unisexual; staminate spikes lanceoloid; pistillate spikes ovoid. Pistillate scales reddish brown to dark brown, with narrow hyaline margins, ovate, apex acute to acuminate-awned, shiny. Anthers 1.8–3.1 mm, apiculus smooth to warty (30X). Perigynia dark reddish brown, essentially veinless, stipitate, broadly ovate to rhombic-orbicular, thickly plano-convex, 1.8–2.8 × 1.1–1.7 mm, shiny; beak 0.25–0.5 mm, hyaline, oblique or obscurely bidentulate.

Alta., Sask.; Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.

Fruiting Jun–Aug.

Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, fens, bogs, stream banks, lakeshores, ditches, tolerant of alkaline soils; 600–3100m.

Carex simulata Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 604. 1908
"Carex marcida Boott " Boott, 111. Carex 16, in part. pi. 4S . 1858. ••Carex Guyana Desv." Boott, 111. Carex 126. pi. 411. 1862.
Rootstocks slender, 1.5-2 mm. thick, long-creeping, brown, scaly, fibrillose, the culms 3-5 dm. high, one or few together, sharply triangular and roughened on the angles above, slender, much exceeding the leaves, light-brownish at base, the old leaves of the previous year inconspicuous; leaves with well-developed blades 2-5 to a culm, all on its lower third, but not bunched, the blades erect-ascending, 8-30 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, flat or canaliculate, light-green, not thick, roughened on the margins and towards the apex, the sheaths tight, truncate at mouth, the ligule about as wide as long; spikes 5-15, densely aggregated into a linear-oblong, oblong, or oblong-ovoid head 12-25 mm. long, 6-10 mm. thick, the individual spikes not separated, but the lower distinguishable, the more strongly pistillate oblong-ovoid, 7 ram. long, 3.5 mm. wide, with about ten perigynia beneath and the inconspicuous staminate flowers above; other spikes almost entirely staminate with an occasional perigynium, and whole heads almost entirely staminate or little staminate, as the case may be; bracts absent or the lower one or two if present shorter than the head, more or less strongly cuspidate, and enlarged at base; scales ovate-triangular, brown with narrow hyaline margin and prominent lighter midvein, strongly cuspidate or short-awned, wider and noticeably longer than the perigynia and concealing them completely; perigynia unequally biconvex, broadly ovate, 1.75-2.25 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, ascending, yellowish-brown when young, chestnut-colored at maturity, shining, coriaceous, rounded-truncate, short-stipitate, little spongy at base, not thickened on margins or winged above, high-convex and slenderly fewnerved dorsally, flat or at length low-convex and nerveless or obscurely nerved at base ventrally, not margined, but sharp-edged, the upper part of the body and the beak serrulate, sometimes only sparingly so, abruptly narrowed into a very short beak 0.25-0.5 mm. long, obliquely cleft dorsally, at length scarcely bidentulate, the margins of the orifice overlapping and slightly hyaline; achenes lenticular, obovoid, 1 mm. long, tapering at base, bluntly apiculate, yellowish-brown; style short, slender, not enlarged at base, jointed with achene; stigmas two, slender, light-brown.
Type locality: Chug Creek, Albany County, Wyoming (A. Nelson 7316).
DisTRiBi'TiON : Wet swales and swamps, Montana to Washington, and southward to New Mexico and the Sierra Nevada of California. (Specimens examined from New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California.)

Carex simulata (lat. Carex simulata) - cilkimilər fəsiləsinin cil cinsinə aid bitki növü. Bu bitkinin ana vətəni , qərbi Amerika və qərbi Kanadadır, burada dağlıq ərazilərdə , çəmənliklərdə, çay düzənliklərinə və əsasən qələvi şəraitində böyüyən bir bitkidir. Əsasən nəmişlik ərazilərdə bitir.

Carex simulata is a species of sedge known by the common name analogue sedge.

Carex simulata adalah spesies tumbuhan seperti rumput yang tergolong ke dalam famili Cyperaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Carex simulata sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Carex. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Mack..

Carex simulata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cói. Loài này được Mack. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1907 publ. 1908.