Carex salina Wahlenb.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Cyperaceae

• Scientific Name

  Carex salina Wahlenb.

• Description

  Species Description - Much like no. 188 [Carex paleacea Wahlenb.], more tufted, but still producing long rhizomes; main lvs 2–5 mm wide, involute in age; spikes all ± erect, the lower short-peduncled, the upper sessile or nearly so; pistillate scales ovate to lanceolate, the purple-brown body usually longer than the perigynia, retuse to acute, the green midvein often prolonged into a short awn; perigynia 1.9–3.3 mm, strongly 2- ribbed, otherwise nerveless or obscurely nerved; 2n=78–83. Saline or brackish marshes along the coast; circumboreal, s. in Amer. to Mass. and James Bay. (C. recta; C. subspathacea) Said to consist at least in considerable part of a series of variably fertile or sterile hybrids between no. 188 and members of the Acutae, but now ± stable and forming large populations.