Carex adelostomaV.I.Krecz.

Circumpolar sedgecircumpolar sedge

WFO wfo-0000344215 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Carex adelostoma, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. a Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-07-03 / obs. 57650540
Carex adelostoma, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57594314
Carex adelostoma, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57589455
Carex adelostoma, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57650543
Carex adelostoma, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57594341

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3697251
Filed as
Carex adelostoma V.I.Krecz.
Det. by
J. M. Saarela 2015-01-01
Collected
J. M. Saarela 2014-08-07
Origin
CA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Carex adelostoma is native: West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia, Finland, Iceland, North European Russia, Norway, Sweden, Alaska, Labrador, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut West SiberiaYakutiyaEast European RussiaFinlandIcelandNorth European RussiaNorwaySwedenAlaskaLabradorManitobaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavut
Native distribution of Carex adelostoma, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
Finland FIN
Iceland ICE
North European Russia RUN
Norway NOR
Sweden SWE
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Labrador LAB
Manitoba MAN
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
West Siberia WSB ASIA-TEMPERATE
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carex buxbaumii subsp. alpina (Hartm.) Liro
  • Carex buxbaumii subsp. mutica (Hartm.) Isov.
  • Carex buxbaumii var. alpicola Hartm.
  • Carex buxbaumii var. alpina Hartm.
  • Carex buxbaumii var. mutica Hartm.
  • Carex morrisseyi A.E.Porsild
  • Carex polygama subsp. alpina (Hartm.) A.Cajander
  • Carex polygama subsp. mutica (Hartm.) A.Cajander
  • Carex polygama subsp. mutica (Hartm.) Cajander

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.