Carex vaginata, Tausch

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 : 307

75. C. vaginata Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 4: 557 (1821)

( C. sparsiflora (Wahlenb.) Steudel ).

Like 74 but leaves 3-5 mm wide, yellowish- to dark green; male spike 7-15 mm; female spikes 5-25 mm, the lower with peduncles 1-5 cm; lowest bract often shorter than spike, with an inflated sheath 5-30 mm; utricles up to 5 mm, less asymmetrical, gradually narrowed into a more or less emarginate beak 0-5-1 mm. 2« = 32. Damp places in woods and on mountains. N. Europe; locally in the mountains of C. & S. W. Europe from the W. Carpathians and Sudeten Mts. to the E. Pyrenees. Au Br Cz Fe Ga Ge He Hs Is No Po Rs (N, B, C,?W, E) Su.

Dwarf plants from arctic Russia and other parts of N. Europe have been called subsp. quasivaginata (C. B. Clarke) Malyschev , Vysok. FI. Vost. Sajana 90 (1965) ( C. algida Turcz. ex V. Krecz. ), but do not seem of sufficient significance to merit such recognition.