Carex podocarpaR.Br.

shortstalk sedge

WFO wfo-0000350145 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 podocarpa, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-07-06 / obs. 4215110

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
3697262
Filed as
Carex podocarpa R.Br. ex Richardson
Det. by
J. M. Saarela 2014-01-01
Collected
J. M. Saarela 2014-07-14
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. 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 16 botanical countries

Regions where Carex podocarpa is native: Buryatiya, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Yakutiya, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Northwest Territories, Oregon, Yukon BuryatiyaKamchatkaKhabarovskKirgizstanMagadanPrimoryeYakutiyaAlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaIdahoMontanaNorthwest TerritoriesOregonYukon
Native distribution of Carex podocarpa, 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
Buryatiya BRY ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Primorye PRM
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Northwest Territories NWT
Oregon ORE
Yukon YUK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 11 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 behringensis C.B.Clarke
  • Carex behringensis var. pallidior Popov
  • Carex excurrens Cham. ex Steud.
  • Carex montanensis L.H.Bailey
  • Carex musartiana Kük. ex V.I.Krecz.
  • Carex musartiana Kük. & V.I.Krecz.
  • Carex pauxilla V.I.Krecz.
  • Carex podocarpa f. pallidior Lepage
  • Carex podocarpa f. podocarpa
  • Carex trichostachya Fisch. ex Boott
  • Carex venustula Holm

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.