Native Plants

Plant Database

Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. If you are not sure what you are looking for, try the Combination Search or our Recommended Species lists.

Enter a Plant Name:
Or you can choose a plant family:

Carex ×pieperiana

Carex ×pieperiana P. Junge

Pieper's Sedge, Sedge

Cyperaceae (Sedge family)

Synonym(s):

USDA Symbol: CAPI11

USDA Native Status: CAN (N)

Natural hybrid of Carex flava and C. viridula ssp. brachyrhyncha var. elatior.

From the Image Gallery

No images of this plant

Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Fruit Type: Achene
Size Notes: Up to about 30 inches tall.

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Green , Brown
Bloom Time: Jul , Aug
Bloom Notes: Perianth absent. Bloom color refers to spikelets. Bloom time refers to fruiting period or presence of spikelets (sterile in many Carex hybrids).

Distribution

Canada: NL , QC
Native Habitat: Moist to wet fens, open meadows, swamps, on lime-rich soils.

Web Reference

Webref 3 - Flora of North America (2014) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Additional resources

USDA: Find Carex �pieperiana in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Carex �pieperiana in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Carex �pieperiana

Metadata

Record Modified: 2020-10-30
Research By: CBR

Go back