Carex liparocarposGaudin

WFO wfo-0000348395 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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 liparocarpos, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. a Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-12 / obs. 136258426
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126959559
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. c Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136258447
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126959571
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. e Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136258466
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. f Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136258498
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by hecklemore
fig. g hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200130434
Carex liparocarpos, photographed by hecklemore
fig. h hecklemore, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200130459

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Carex liparocarpos is native: Algeria, Morocco, Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoIranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Carex liparocarpos, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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 268 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.5 °C -3.1 °C 2.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.7 °C 26.1 °C 28.6 °C
Annual rainfall 557 mm 722 mm 1,295 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 95 mm 132 mm 209 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 268 research-grade observations of Carex liparocarpos 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 10 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 bordzilowskii V.I.Krecz.
  • Carex brevirostrata Poir.
  • Carex lamarckii Wood
  • Carex lucida Clairv.
  • Carex nitida Host
  • Carex nitida var. supiniformis Kük.
  • Carex palentina Losa & P.Monts.
  • Carex schkuhrii Willd.
  • Edritria schkuhrii (Willd.) Raf.
  • Lamprochlaenia nitida Fedde & J.Schust.

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.