DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Carex hitchcockiana Dewey	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY accepted accepted accepted

Hitchcock's Sedge
Cyperaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Rich woods, in deep black soil and humus on a gravelly nonacid subtratum; frequent. June 15-30. S. of Danby village (D.); foot of hill, Inlet Valley, Ithaca-Newfield town line; n. of Lick Brook; Beech Woods, Six Mile Creek; n. of Forest Home (D.); Franklins ravine and Camp Warwick (D.); alluvial woods along creek n. of Mecklenburg; between Jacksonville and Waterburg; Ovid Woods (D.); Little Salmon Creek valley; Paine Creek glen; Wood Mill station (D.); Big Gully; woods e. of Turtle Pond. Vt. to Mich., southw. to Ky. and Mo. A plant primarily of the rich soils of the Ohio Valley.

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

Ithaca, 10 Jun 1885, anonymous (BH 3622);

near Danby Village, woods, 7 Jul 1881, Dudley (BH 3623);

Ulysses, between Jacksonville and Waterburg, rich woodland, 16 Jun 1918, Eames & Wiegand 9504 (BH 3624);

Newfield-Ithaca town line, Inlet Valley, rich woods, base of hill, 6 Jun 1918, Eames & Wiegand 9496 (BH 6504);

Town of Dryden, adjacent to north side of Six Mile Creek downstream from German Cross Road, very rich basswood maple mesic forest adjacent to creek with lots of native but also plenty of non-native plants including Carex laxiculmis var. copulata, Allium tricoccum Maianthemum racemosum, Dactylis glomerata, Hesperis matronalis, Elaeagnus umbellata, 27 May 2006, Werier 2989 (BH 32874);

Ithaca, Lick Brook, 10 Jun 1936, Wiegand 19336 (BH 3619);

Ithaca, alluvial terrace, 29 Jun 1995, Wiegand (BH 3621);

Ithaca, Six Mile Creek, 4 Jun 1896, Wiegand (BH 3620);

Ithaca, north of Lick Brook, base of hill, rich woods, 6 Jun 1919, Wiegand 11654 (BH 3618);

Ithaca, Beech Woods, 6 Jun 1914, Wiegand & Thomas 1913 (BH 6503);

THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL 1 SPECIMENS AT BH THAT ARE NOT YET FULLY RECORDED

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