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	Carex pendula HUDS. s.str.

Fam.: Cyperaceae / Sedge Fam.

Genus: Carex L.

Carex agastachys is the Eastern parallel species of the Western Carex pendula s.str., the crossover between the two species runs through Germany. Carex pendula s.str. shown here has white margins of the ligules and elliptical nutlets (widest in the middle), while Carex agastachys has red margins of the ligules and obovate nutlets in the fruits (widest near one end). The also generally stated difference that the peduncles of the female spikes of Carex agastachys shall be significantly rougher than those of Carex pendula s.str., I can't confirm for C. agastachys from the Ungeheuerklamm south of Bruchsal and C. pendula s.str. from Weinheim, Hemsbach, and Schriesheim (all in the northern Upper Rhine valley), they are pretty rough in both cases. Perhaps this attribute is more different if comparing geographically more distant populations. Both species are not only native wild plants, but also cultivated as ornamental plants, and are running wild, too.

Authors:
	HUDS.:	William Hudson (1730 - 1793), British pharmacist and botanist
	L.:	Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Carex:	carere = missing (seeds are missing at the upper male spike of many species)
	pendula:	hanging
	agastachys:	aga = very, stachys = spike

Fig. 1: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Wachenheim 29.5.2023

Fig. 2: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Wachenheim 29.5.2023

Fig. 3: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 4: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 5: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 6: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 7: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 8: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 18.5.2009

Fig. 9: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 8.7.2009

Fig. 10: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 8.7.2009

Fig. 11: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 8.7.2009

Fig. 12: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (leaf upper side)
D Hemsbach 8.7.2009

Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge, D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 13: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (leaf upper side)
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 14: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (leaf bottom side)
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 15: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 16: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 17: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 18: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 19: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (peduncle slightly rough (at the top of lower stalk))
D Hemsbach 20.7.2022

Fig. 20: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 20.7.2015

Fig. 21: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 20.7.2022

Fig. 22: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (nutlets widest in the middle)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 20.7.2022

Fig. 23: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Weinheim an der Bergstraße 20.7.2022

Fig. 24: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Schriesheim 7.5.2015

Fig. 25: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Schriesheim 7.5.2015

Fig. 26: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Schriesheim 7.5.2015

Fig. 27: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Schriesheim 27.7.2022

Fig. 28: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Schriesheim 27.7.2022

Fig. 29: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (nutlets widest in the middle)
D Schriesheim 27.7.2022

Fig. 30: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025

Fig. 31: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025

Fig. 32: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025

Fig. 33: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 11.5.2013

Fig. 34: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 11.5.2013

Fig. 35: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 11.5.2013

Fig. 36: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 11.5.2013

Fig. 37: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 30.7.2022

Fig. 38: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 30.7.2022

Fig. 39: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 30.7.2022

Fig. 40: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (nutlets widest in the middle)
D Odenwald, Mitlechtern 30.7.2022

Fig. 41: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
I Liguria, Deiva Marina 30.9.2023

Fig. 42: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
I Liguria, Deiva Marina 30.9.2023

Fig. 43: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
I Liguria, Deiva Marina 30.9.2023

Fig. 44: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge
GR Peloponnes, Mt. Kyllini, Evrostina 22.5.2024

Fig. 45: Carex pendula s.str. / Western Pendulous Sedge, Western Hanging Sedge (margin of the ligule white)
GR Peloponnes, Mt. Kyllini, Evrostina 22.5.2024

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