Carex globularisL.

WFO wfo-0000347080 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Carex globularis, photographed by nina_nesterova
fig. a nina_nesterova, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-27 / obs. 141613893
Carex globularis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73149731
Carex globularis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. c Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 68803110
Carex globularis, photographed by nina_nesterova
fig. d nina_nesterova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79609437
Carex globularis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. e Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142394901
Carex globularis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. f Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126699052
Carex globularis, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. g Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106488832
Carex globularis, photographed by Dmitry Ivanov
fig. h Dmitry Ivanov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203759629

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05131882
Filed as
Carex globularis L.
Det. by
D. B. Poindexter 2022-01-01
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
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. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. 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 sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 25 botanical countries

Regions where Carex globularis is native: Altay, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Finland, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Sweden AltayInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinWest SiberiaYakutiyaBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaFinlandNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayPolandSweden Korea
Native distribution of Carex globularis, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
Poland POL
Sweden SWE

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 470 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -31.7 °C -13.8 °C -8.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.8 °C 21.5 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 445 mm 674 mm 1,055 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 104 mm 138 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 470 research-grade observations of Carex globularis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 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 globularis var. depauperata Popov
  • Carex globularis var. mitsuriokensis (H.Lév. & Vaniot) H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Carex mitsuriokensis H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Carex oligogyna Less. ex Kunth
  • Carex tomentosa Hornem.
  • Onkerma globularis (L.) Raf.

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. 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.