Donald A. Windsor
In a small wetland, less than half an acre, I found 5 species of sedge and 1 species of rush on 14 September 2010.
No common name Carex crinita B 62 | G 339-40 | K 67, 69 #49
No common name Carex lupulina B 58 | G 377 K | 64 #6
No common name Carex intumescens B 59 | G 376 | K 64 #4
Threeway Sedge Dulichium arundinaceum B 101 | G 248 | K 54
Woolgrass Sedge Scirpus cyperinus B 36-7 | G 275 | K 59
RUSH
Soft Rush Juncus effusus B 122 | G 406-7 | K 77, 79
The property is privately owned and is not open to the public, so I am not disclosing the owner's name. It is located in the Town of Oxford, south of the Village, between County Road 32 (East River Road) and the Chenango River, in a kettle-kame terrain. It sits at an elevation of around 1050 feet. The river is about 0.1 mile west at an elevation of 970 feet. East River Road is about 0.25 mile east at an elevation of 1090 feet.
Normally, this wetland contains standing water a foot or so deep atop mud. This year, in September, it was dry enough to walk through without boots.
If there are 5 species of sedges in one little wetland, how many are there in all of Chenango County? I intend to find out.
Following the names of the sedges listed above are the references I used in identifying them. The capital letters are initials of the authors listed below. The numbers are the pages. Numbers after a # are drawings.
Brown, Lauren. Grasses. An Identification Guide. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 1979. 240 pages.
Gray, Asa, Rewritten and Expanded by Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Gray's Manual of Botany. Eighth Centennial Edition - Illustrated. A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press (Timber Press). 1950. 4th printing. 1632 pages.
Knobel, Edward. Revised by Faust, Mildred E. Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the United States. New York: Dover. 2nd Revised Edition. 1980. 84 pages.
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