Carex picta

Classification	Monocots
Family	Cyperaceae
Family (Traditional)	Cyperaceae
Genus	Carex
Species:	Carex picta Steud.
Common Name	Bootts Sedge
Growth Habit	graminoid
Plant Notes	**
Characteristics	Armaments: No; Milky Sap: No; Photosynthetic: Yes; Stipules: No; Woody Herbaceous: Herbaceous; Natural Area Presence: BE; Natural Area Presence: GILES; Natural Area Presence: LGS; Natural Area Presence: PK; Duration: Perennial; General Ecology: Terrestrial; Growth Habit: graminoid; Moisture Requirements: Xeric; Moisture Requirements: Sub-xeric; Moisture Requirements: Dry-mesic; Moisture Requirements: Mesic; Region of Origin: North America; Leaf Arrangement: alternate; Leaf Complexity: simple; Leaf Dissection: 0; Leaf Fragrance: No; Leaf Persistance: Deciduous; Leaf Petiole Type: sessile; Leaf Rank: 3-ranked; Leaf Type: grass-like; Leaf Venation: parallel; Leaflet Margins: entire; Leaflet Number: 0; Anther Type: Basifixed; Base Flower Color: Brown (incl. Maroon); Base Flower Color: Green; Fruit Dehiscence: No; Fruit Type: Achene; Fruit Wet/Dry: Dry; Hypanthium Present: No; Ovary Position: Superior; Overall Flower Symmetry: N/A; Perianth Present: No; Petal Fusion: N/A; Pistil Complexity: Compound; Pistil Number: 1; Placentation Type: Basal; Sepal Fusion: N/A; Sepal Number: 0; Sporangium Arrangement: N/A; Stamen Number: 3; Tepal Fusion: N/A; Tepal Number: 0
C value	7
Status	Native; TN[SNR] KY[S3S4] (State Rank); G4G5 (Global Rank)
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Species Distribution Map

This species has been reported in the counties highlighted in the interactive distribution map below. Click on a county to display the its name. Click the question mark icon () to view additional information about the ecoregions shown. In the map legend, there are links to toggle the visibility of the ecoregions and/or their labels. In addition, clicking on an ecoregion name will highlight that region on the map.

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Counties - Species Present

Ecoregions

Southeastern Plains
- Blackland Prarie
Blue Ridge Mountains
Ridge and Valley
Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland Mountains
Allegheny Plateau

Interior Plateau
- Bluegrass Region
- Nashville Basin
- Pennyroyal Karst Plain
- Western Highland Rim
- Eastern Highland Rim

Interior River Valleys and Hills
- Shawnee / Caseyville Hills
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains
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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort.

Counties included on distribution map: Calloway (KY), Edmonson (KY), Lee (KY), Logan (KY), McCreary (KY), Muhlenberg (KY), Todd (KY), Trigg (KY), Cheatham (TN), Coffee (TN), Davidson (TN), Giles (TN), Hamilton (TN), Houston (TN), Humphreys (TN), Lawrence (TN), Lewis (TN), Marion (TN), Maury (TN), Montgomery (TN), Polk (TN), Stewart (TN), Wayne (TN)

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: APSC, EKY, MDKY, KNK, UCHT, VDB, BEREA, TENN

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1951 - 2018

Accession No. (click for full details)	County	State	Coll. Date	Collector & Collection No.	Herbarium & Herbarium Name Used
TENN-V-0063299	Lawrence	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050117	Cheatham	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050124	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056590	Muhlenberg	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050120	Coffee	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056588	Logan	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050127	Marion	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050132	Wayne	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050125	Giles	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0174719	Hamilton	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050128	Maury	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050131	Wayne	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050129	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056586	Logan	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056591	Todd	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050116	Cheatham	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050121	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050126	Humphreys	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050130	Wayne	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050118	Cheatham	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050122	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056589	Logan	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050119	Cheatham	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0050123	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex picta
TENN-V-0056592	Todd	Kentucky			TENN Carex picta
UCHT004422	Marion	Tennessee	25 Mar 1983	Edwin Bridges 259	UCHT Carex picta
UCHT004423	Cheatham	Tennessee	30 Mar 2011	Clea Klagstad 296	UCHT Carex picta
APSC0036607	Maury	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036613	Montgomery	Tennessee	08 Apr 1951	Alfred Clebsch	APSC Carex picta
APSC0104146	Logan	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036604	Wayne	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036595	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036608	Lewis	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036606	Wayne	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036603	Humphreys	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0104144	Muhlenberg	Kentucky	22 Apr 1993	Landon McKinney	APSC Carex picta
APSC0036597	Stewart	Tennessee	25 Apr 1996	Edward Chester	APSC Carex picta
APSC0104143	Logan	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0053777	Davidson	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036602	Cheatham	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036599	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036611	Houston	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0050595	Cheatham	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036596	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036614	Houston	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036598	Stewart	Tennessee	25 Apr 1996	Edward Chester	APSC Carex picta
APSC0053917	Lawrence	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0036612	Cheatham	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
APSC0104145	Todd	Kentucky	03 Apr 1976	Raymond Athey	APSC Carex picta
APSC0036600	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0092195	McCreary	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0092987	Muhlenberg	Kentucky	25 Mar 2018	Mason Brock	APSC Carex picta
APSC0036610	Humphreys	Tennessee			APSC Carex picta
UCHT040227	Hamilton	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
UCHT038604	Lawrence	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
UCHT038603	Hamilton	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
UCHT040228	Hamilton	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
UCHT040161	Hamilton	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
BRIT160881		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160890		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160888		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160863		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160880		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160870		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160889		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160876		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160875		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160873		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160893		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160871		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160874		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160891		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160885		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160868		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160866		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160878		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160883		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160887		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160884		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160864		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160867		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160869		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT161000		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160882		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160879		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160865		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160877		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160892		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
BRIT160872		Tennessee			VDB Carex picta
UCHT042216	Lawrence	Tennessee			UCHT Carex picta
APSC0036601	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
APSC0076984	McCreary	Kentucky			APSC Carex picta
MDKY00002995	Logan	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
31234100064128	Edmonson	Kentucky	23 Apr 1980	Richard H. Hannan 3478	EKY Carex picta
31234100064144	Logan	Kentucky	05 Apr 1976	Raymond Athey 3229	EKY Carex picta
31234100064136	Lee	Kentucky	19 May 1988	Julian Campbell	EKY Carex picta
31234100733037	Lee	Kentucky	19 May 1988	Julian Campbell	EKY Carex picta
31234100061082	Calloway	Kentucky	12 Jun 2008	Brian D. Yahn	EKY Carex picta
BEREA003717	McCreary	Kentucky	28 Apr 1989	Julian Campbell s.n.	BEREA Carex picta
31973000010606	McCreary	Kentucky			KNK Carex picta
31973000010607	McCreary	Kentucky			KNK Carex picta
MDKY00002999	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00002998	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00002996	Logan	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00003003	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00003002	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00003001	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00003000	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta
MDKY00002997	McCreary	Kentucky			MDKY Carex picta

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