Sedge Buster Lesson 15 - Common Carics of These Parts

We are fixing to wind up on Carex, anon, and then Sedge Buster will move along to Cyperus, maybe. We will have to discuss that subtopic fer Ray wants to do Eleocharis next. So what we are going to do to wind up Carex is have some mini-lessons on the different super common ones in these parts. Which reminds me that I, er somebody needs to send me some Carex emoryi er we need to go out and see if it's in fornication mode down by the lake or on Onion Creek.

Today's common one for these parts is good old Carex brittoniana which the smart alecks are attempting to now spell Carex tetrastachya. How annoying is that, sedge busters? Anyway, we will continue to reference the species as C. brittoniana due to our high regard fer Nathaniel Lord Britton and his picture books and also because Druids are old fashioned.

These pictures we took located here in near proximity somewhere are dedicated to Lord Britton who we happen to know is not dead, but instead, is restin' up in one of our nice fairy lands. The first picture is a couple of peryginia. They are the biggest peryginia to be found among the Section Ovales caric sedges in Texas. That one on the right is over 5mm wide. Also those peryginia are veinless.

This second picture shows the gynecandrous infloresence with the girls on top again. If you see a caric sedge that looks like this in central Texas, it is C. brittoniana and no other, no matter how hard you try to make it into an other. This one likes it pretty wet in nature seems like, but on the other hand, we grow it at the CB under less than wet foot conditions and it seems to do Okie Dokie, sets seed and spreads in areas of full to nearly full shade.

Which one do ye want to do next Ray?

Let's do C. blanda and the luckless C. amphibola.

Whoa! That's two and one of em is troubling.

Even so, Crumby, even so.

All righty then.