Carex canescens

Ssp canescens: Hanım saparna

Laxly caespitose; rhizomes very short, ascending. Stems 15-55 cm, sharply trigonous, slender, ±erect, scabrid above; basal sheaths pale greyish- or pinkish-brown. Leaves 1.5-3 mm broad, c. as long as stems or slightly shorter, soft, rather thin, flat or ± keeled, pale greyish-green. Inflorescence to 5.5 cm; spikes 4-8, upper overlapping, lower usually somewhat distant, sessile, ovoid-oblong, all gynecandrous; bracts glumaceous or shortly setaceous, usually shorter than spikes. Female glumes ovate-oblong, slightly shorter than utricles, acute or apiculate, keeled at top, whitish or very pale brownish, hyaline with green midvein. Utricles pale greyish-yellow or -green, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2-2.8 mm, suberect, with rather distinct whitish veins, minutely papillose, gradually tapering into short flattened, ± conical, scabrid-margined, retuse beak. Wet places by lakes and streams, peat bogs, 1400-2650 m.

N., W., C. & northern S. Europe , C. & S. Russia, Caucasia, Siberia, Tien-Shan, E. Asia, N. America. Euro-Sib./Boreo-American element.