3309108 Carex canescens subsp. canescens L.
Distribution
Northern Iceland: Frequent
Northern Fennoscandia: Frequent
Kanin - Pechora: Frequent
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Scattered
Yamal - Gydan: Scattered
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
West Chukotka: Rare
South Chukotka: Rare
Western Alaska: Rare
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Rare
Central Canada: Rare
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Scattered
Western Greenland: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Scattered
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
- L., Sp. Pl.: 974 (1753). Lectotype: north-central Europe (Germany or Poland). Loesel, Fl. Pruss.: t. 32. 1703. (Toivonen 1981: 94, f. 1).
- Carex cinerea Pollich, Hist. Pl. Palat. 2: 571 (1777). Described from Germany.
- Carex curta Gooden., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 145 (1794). Described from the British Isles.
2n=
52-56-62. - Europe, Siberia, Far East, Alaska, Canada, U.S.A., Greenland. - Numerous reports.
Geography: Circumboreal-polar: ICE NOR RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.
Notes: An additional subspecies is present in eastern North America, the probably non-arctic subsp. disjuncta (Fernald) Toivonen.
Higher Taxa
- Carex [3309,genus]