Carex sempervirens, Vili.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 315

131. C. sempervirens Vili. , Hist. Pl. Dauph. 2: 214 (1787)

(inch subsp. tristis auct. eur., non (Bieb.) Kük.).

Densely caespitose, usually forming tussocks, without creeping rhizomes. Stems 10-40(-60) cm, erect, slender, obscurely trigonous, usually smooth; basal sheaths yellowish- to dark reddish-brown, with lamina, often fibrous. Leaves half aslong to almost as long as stems, 1—3(—4) mm wide, more or lessflaccid, green. Male spikes 1(—3), 10-15x 2-3 mm. Female spikes 2-3, 10-20x 4-5 mm, oblong-ovoid, fairly dense, erect or the lower somewhat pendent, distant, the upper subsessile or shortly pedunculate and usually overlapping the base of the male spike, the lower with peduncles 2-8(-12) cm; lowest bract with a sheath 10-30 mm. Female glumes blackish- or reddish-brown, with scarious margin. Utricles (3 -5-)4-6-5(-7-5) x 1-1-5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, yellowish-brown to dark brown, weakly veined, glabrous or more or less scabrid-pubescent, gradually narrowed into a long, serrulate, scarious-margined 2-fid beak. Stigmas 3. 2/2 = 30 (31,32), 34, 68. Dry grassland and rocky slopes. • Mountains of C. & S. Europe from the Carpathians toN. Spain, N. Appennini andMacedonia. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge?Gr He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

Extremely variable, and perhaps divisible into several subspecies.