DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Carex comosa Boott	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY accepted accepted accepted

Bristly Sedge, Longhair Sedge
Cyperaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Swales and marshes, in boggv, more or less acid, soils; frequent. June 20-July. Spencer Lake; Michigan Hollow Swamp; Enfield Valley, above the Falls; Cayuta Lake (D.!); Renwick marsh; Freeville Bog; Dryden Lake; McLean Bogs; Vandemark Pond: Miller Bog. Spring Lake; Mud Pond, Conquest; Clyde River flats. N.S. to Wash., southw. to Fla., La., and s. Calif., including the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Apparent hybrids with C. hystericina occur at Junius on the marly moor of Vandemark and Newton Ponds (A.J. Eames & L.H. MacDaniels), and at Pout Pond (D.). In all cases the achenes are undeveloped. A hybrid with C. lurida was reported from West Danby by Dudley.

BH SPECIMENS FOR Carex comosa (this list may be incomplete)

Ithaca, Stewart Park, marsh, 12 Aug 1932, Bean (BH 136750);
Dryden, north of Mud Pond, along creek, 16 Aug 1949, DeLong (BH 78774);	VEmap	GOOmap
Town of Dryden: Dryden Lake, 5 Jun 1944, Muenscher & Brown 20994 (BH 217815);
Ithaca, Cornell Campus, southeastern trail section of Beebe Lake., 1/3 m tall clump, angular stem, yellow-green fruits., 28 Jun 2024, Tara Atluri Internship 693 (BH 2000114);
McLean Bogs., mud pond., 27 Jun 2019, BHSI 221 (BH 218642);	VEmap	GOOmap
Dryden, northwest shore of Dryden Lake, spring, 22 Jul 1918, Gershoy 9532 (BH 3661);
Danby, Buttermilk Falls State Park, Jennings Pond, in the swamp, 10 Jun 1975, Krusi (BH 3660);
McLean Bogs, 1 Aug 1920, Muenscher & Bechtel 467 (BH 6157);
Ithaca, Larch Meadow, around edge of artificial ponds, 28 Jun 1976, Standley 76-68 (BH 6155);	VEmap	GOOmap
Dryden township, along southeast side of Dryden, opening in marshy moor, 6 Aug 1974, Wesley FRW845 (BH 6156);
Dryden, Freeville Bog, 20 Jun 1917, Wiegand 7782 (BH 6159);

MAP OF ALL MAPPED SPECIMENS

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