Carex peckii explained

Carex peckii,^[1] Peck's sedge,^[2] Peck's oak sedge,^[2] or white-tinged sedge,^[2] is a species of sedge native to Canada^[2] and the United States.

Description

Carex peckii grows in loose clumps, spreading by rhizomes to create colonies.^[3]

Range

Carex peckii is native to north-eastern, central and northern North America.^[4]

Habitat

Carex peckii grows in association with trees.^[3] It is found in dry to wet sites.^[5]

Ecology

Carex peckii has been identified as a host of the rust fungi Uromyces perigynius.^[6]

Etymology

The specific name 'peckii' commemorates Charles Horton Peck (1833-1917), an American mycologist.^[7]

Taxonomy

The name Carex peckii was first published in the annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the New York State Museum. Albany, NY, 47: 166 in 1894^[8] in the report of the state botanist for the year 1893 written by Charles H. Peck.^[9] The species is included in the list of additions to the herbarium of species not previously described. The species was described by Elliot C. Howe with additional specimens collected by Chester Dewey and Peter D. Knieskern. The type locality of this species is identified as New York.^[8] Carex peckii belongs to Carex sect. Acrocystis.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carex peckii (Peck's Sedge) . iNaturalist.ca . 2021-12-04 . en.
2. Web site: Brouillet . L. . Coursol . F. . Meades . S.J. . Favreau . M. . Anions . M. . Bélisle . P. . Desmet . P. . Carex peckii Howe . VASCAN, the Database of Vascular Plants of Canada . 28 November 2021.
3. Web site: Carex peckii (Peck's Sedge): Minnesota Wildflowers . www.minnesotawildflowers.info . Minnesota Wildflowers . 4 December 2021 . en.
4. Web site: Carex peckii Howe. Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew . 2021-12-04.
5. Book: Johnston . Barry . Field guide to sedge species of the Rocky Mountain Region The genus Carex in Colorado, Wyoming, western South Dakota, western Nebraska, and western Kansas . 2001 . United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service . Denver, Colorado . 161 . 4 December 2021.
6. Web site: Peck's sedge data - Encyclopedia of Life . eol.org . 4 December 2021.
7. Web site: Carex peckii (Peck's sedge): Go Botany . gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org . 4 December 2021.
8. Web site: Carex peckii Howe. ipni.org . International Plant Names Index. 2021-12-04.
9. Book: New York State Museum: Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Regents . 1894 . 47 . J.B. Lyon . Biodiversity Heritage Library.