DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Carex grisea Wahlenb.	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY no accepted accepted

Inflated Narrow-leaf Sedge
Cyperaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Damp woodlands and banks, in rich sandy, gravelly, or alluvial, neutral or calcareous, soils; frequent. May 25-June. Frequent at base of hills in the Inlet Valley, along the shores of Cayuga Lake to Union Springs, on the Clyde River flats, and elsewhere; occasionally found toward Dryden and McLean. S. Me. to Minn., southw. to N.C. and Ark.; infrequent or rare on the Coastal Plain. Variable in plumpness of perigynium and in breadth of leaf, approaching var. rigida Bailey or var. angustifolia Boott in shady places. In the Cayuga Lake Basin, at least, these variations are apparently ecological.

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

Freeville, 10 Jul 1882, anonymous (BH 340096);
Town of Lansing, shore of Cayuga Lake, lakeshore, probably on fill, herb, 18 May 2011, Atha & Reveal 10372 (BH 61264);	VEmap	GOOmap
Ithaca, north of Beebe Lake, open woods, 14 Jun 1920, Muenscher & Bechtel 71 (BH 6496);
Renwick, low ground near street car line, open alluvial and marshy flats between alluvial and marshy flats, 15 Jun 1914, Wiegand & Thomas 1915 (BH 97893);
Ithaca Renwick, along Pleasant Grove Brook, base of hill, 31 May 1916, Bechtel & Metcalf 6069 (BH 3787);
Ithaca, Inlet Valley, foot of Lick Brook Falls, 3 Jun 1918, Bechtel & Wiegand 9511 (BH 23223);
Ithaca, Renwick Bird Sanctuary, in rich woods, associated with Impatiens and Laportea, 29 Jun 1938, Clausen 3479 (BH 3764);
Dryden, Ellis Hollow, swampy place in field, 27 Jun 1915, Eames & MacDaniels 3640 (BH 3774);
Dryden, along road north east of Freeville, 30 Jun 1917, Gershoy 7754 (BH 23221);
Ithaca, 1868, Lord (BH 3777);
Town of Ulysses, Taughannock Point, in wet woods near landing, 27 Jun 1916, Metcalf 6071 (BH 3785);
Ithaca, above road opposite Renwick, in wet swamp, 31 May 1916, Metcalf 6070 (BH 3786);
Ithaca, 11 Jun 1885, Rowlee (BH 3775);
Ithaca, Fall Creek, 6 Jun 1895, Rowlee (BH 3776);
Ithaca, north side of Oak Avenue, beyond last house, shaded roadside, with Hydrophyllum virginianum, 23 May 1977, Standley 77-36 (BH 3778);	VEmap	GOOmap
Ithaca, State road just south of Enfield Creek, roadside by woods, 28 May 1918, Wiegand 9508 (BH 23222);
Fall Creek on the flats, 4 Jun 1890, Wiegand (BH 3763);
Ithaca, north of Lick Brook, delta woodland, 6 Jun 1919, Wiegand 11657 (BH 23224);

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