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smoothbeak sedge
Scientific Name: Carex integra
Family: Cyperaceae
Category: Monocot
Growth: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Other Names:
Smooth Saw-sedge and Other Sedges
This page provides information about various sedges, including those with "smooth" or "beak-like" characteristics.
Common Names
- Smooth Saw-sedge
- White Beak-sedge
- Brownish Beak-sedge
- Tall Horned Sedge
- Smooth-stalked Sedge
- Mackenzie Smooth-beak Sedge (also Smoothbeak Sedge, Smooth-beaked Sedge)
- Long Beaked Sedge (also Sprengel's Sedge)
- Swollen-beaked sedge
- Common beaked sedge
Scientific Names and Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Rhynchospora alba: White Beak-sedge
- Carex laevigata: Smooth-stalked Sedge
- Carex integra: Smooth-beak Sedge (Synonyms: Smoothbeak Sedge, Smooth-beaked Sedge)
- Carex arcta: Northern Cluster Sedge, Northern Clustered Sedge (Synonym: Carex canescens)
- Rhynchospora fusca: Brown Beak-sedge
- Carex rostrata: Beaked sedge
Distribution and Habitat
- Sedges generally prefer damp or wet habitats.
- Smooth-beaked sedge can be found in open bogs, sedge meadows, and marshlands between 2,500.
- White Beak-sedge is associated with acid bogs.
Morphological Characteristics
- Beak-sedges can be complex; length should be noted.
- Stems are bluntly triangular in cross-section below the spikes, spongy, and smooth.
- Leaf blades are smooth and hairless or rough and sandpapery.
- Flowering stems are smooth (may be slightly rough below the flower cluster).
- The utricle may be prolonged into a narrow beak around the aperture.
- Leaf blades of Long-beaked Sedge are dark-green, smooth on the back, and slightly rough on the upper surface and margins.
Interactions with Other Organisms
- Common beaked sedge is grazed by moose (Alces alces) and elk (Cervus).
Considerations for Pets
- Some sedges have leaves with edges that can be rough.