Fox Sedge Carex vulpinoidea Michaux    
Kingdom Plantae   >   Division Tracheophyta   >   Class Magnoliopsida   >   Order Poales   >   Family Cyperaceae   >   Genus Carex   

Description:

Note that leaf sheaths are rugulose (i.e., they have visible wrinkles which are horizontally oriented). This is a distinguishing character for this species. (B. Harms, pers. comm.)

There are 253 records in the project database.

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Fox Sedge in Cecil Co., Maryland (5/20/2011). Photo by Sean McCandless. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Howard Co., Maryland (7/19/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/1/2014). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Howard Co., Maryland (6/19/2014). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (5/19/2015). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Allegany Co., Maryland (6/1/2014). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Cecil Co., Maryland (5/20/2011). Photo by Sean McCandless. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Cecil Co., Maryland (6/17/2019). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Allegany Co., Maryland (6/1/2014). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Frederick Co., Maryland (9/7/2018). Photo by Robert Warren. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Caroline Co., Maryland (6/1/2014). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Harford Co., Maryland (7/21/2014). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Washington Co., Maryland (5/26/2014). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Garrett Co., Maryland (7/12/2014). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Caroline Co., Maryland (5/25/2014). Photo by Jim Stasz. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Howard Co., Maryland (6/5/2010). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

A Fox Sedge (fruiting spike) in Howard Co., Maryland (6/12/2014). Photo by Joanne Solem. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (6/24/2017). (c) Bill Hubick, all rights reserved. Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)

Fox Sedge in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/28/2013). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)


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