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Vascular plants – Nonvascular plants

Vascular:

  1. Carex spp.

    1. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Jan Wesenberg ©
      Example species, <em>Carex chordorrhiza</em>
      Nordre Land: Skjervungfjellet. 2004.
    2. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Bilder ur Nordens Flora
      Image author: C.A.M. Lindman
      Example species, <em>Carex c_spitosa</em>
    3. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Jan Wesenberg ©
      Example species, <em>Carex chordorrhiza</em>
      Nordre Land: Skjervungfjellet. 2004.
    4. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Inge Jahren ©
      Example species, <em>Carex glareosa</em>
      Svelvik: Knemstranda. 2004.
    5. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Ingvar Leif Leknes ©
      Example species, <em>Carex saxatilis</em>
      Sogndal: ved Reppanipa 1999.
    6. CarexCarex
      Original image
      Robert W. Freckman Herbarium, University of Wisconsin, WI, USA.
      Image author: Andrew Hipp ©
      Example species, <em>Carex aquatilis</em>

  1. Carex aquatilis subsp. stans

    1. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Susan G. Aiken ?
      Close-up of developing inflorescence. Small plant growing on the edge of an Eriophorum angustifolium meadow. Developing inflorescences with the stigmas appearing fully extended and pre-anthesis anthers.
      N.W.T., Banks Island, Aulavik National Park, 11 July, 1999. Canada.
    2. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
      Close-up of inflorescence. Terminal spike with prominent anthers. Base of the spike showing perigynia each with two stigmas.
      Sciresby Bay, Ellsmere Island, Canada, 1998.
    3. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
      Close-up of plant. Plants about ten cm. high with flowering spikes at anthesis.
      Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Scoresby Bay. S.G. Aiken 98-010, Canada. 1998
    4. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: J.M. Gillett ?
      Close-up of plants. Plants growing on silt near a pond. Leaf associated with the inflorescence extending beyond it. Terminal spike male, at anthesis. Lower spikes female.
      Sachs Harbour, Banks Island, Canada, 7/24/81

  1. Carex aquatilis

    1. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: E. Barbour

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    2. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA: July, 2007
    3. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Cofrin Center for Biodiversity
      Image author: Gary Fewless ©
      Close-up of inflorescence
      2004
    4. Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilis
      Original image
      Cofrin Center for Biodiversity
      Image author: Gary Fewless ©
      Large plants
      2004

  1. Carex atrofusca

    1. Carex atrofuscaCarex atrofusca
      Original image
      Saxifraga
      Image author: Michael Koltzenburg ©
      Close-up of inflorescence
      Europe
    2. Carex atrofuscaCarex atrofusca
      Original image
      Bilder ur Nordens Flora
      Image author: C.A.M. Lindman
      Flowering plant illustration
      from C.A.M. Lindman's Flora, with kind permission from Project Runeberg (http://runeberg.org/, Sweden). All images have been processed by Dr. Gerhard Keuck to remove background and improve contrast.
    3. Carex atrofuscaCarex atrofusca
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©
      Plant growing on scree
      Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 7/26/04

  1. Carex bigelowii

    1. Carex bigelowiiCarex bigelowii
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: E. Barbour

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    2. Carex bigelowiiCarex bigelowii
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: E. Barbour

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    3. Carex bigelowiiCarex bigelowii
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: E. Barbour

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    4. Carex bigelowiiCarex bigelowii
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    5. Carex bigelowiiCarex bigelowii
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007

  1. Carex capillaris

    1. Carex capillarisCarex capillaris
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©
      Inflorescences
      July 2003, Battle Harbour, Labrador, Canada. Limestone outcrops outside of town.
    2. Carex capillarisCarex capillaris
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©
      Plant with flowering spikes
      July 2002, Limestone barrens, Burnt Cape, Newfoundland, Canada
    3. Carex capillarisCarex capillaris
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©

      July 2001, Boat Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Limestone barrens.
    4. Carex capillarisCarex capillaris
      Original image
      The Flora of Svalbard
      Image author: Inger Greve Alsos
      ssp. fuscidula
      Bockfjorden, Svalbard
    5. Carex capillarisCarex capillaris
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: E.G. Hurd, N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich

      1998

  1. Carex chordorrhiza

    1. Carex chordorrhizaCarex chordorrhiza
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©
      Close-up of inflorescence
      Finland, Hämeenkyrö, Sarkkila, 6/15/93
    2. Carex chordorrhizaCarex chordorrhiza
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©
      Inflorescence
      Finland, Hämeenkyrö, Sarkkila, 6/15/93
    3. Carex chordorrhizaCarex chordorrhiza
      Original image
      Vascular Plants of Poland
      Image author: Maciej Romanski ©
      Single plant

  1. Carex fuliginosa subsp. misandra

    1. Carex fuliginosaCarex fuliginosa
      Original image
      Saxifraga
      Image author: Michael Koltzenburg ©

    2. Carex fuliginosaCarex fuliginosa
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
      Close-up of plant. Roots much longer than the stems are high.
      Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Scoresby Bay, Canada
    3. Carex fuliginosaCarex fuliginosa
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: J.M. Gillett ?
      Close-up of plants. Plants growing on a dry sedge and grassy slope. Multispicate inflorescence with filiform pedicels, somewhat flexuous.
      Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit, Canada July 23, 1982
    4. Carex fuliginosaCarex fuliginosa
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
      Plants in habitat. Plants growing in dry calcareous gravel and silt tundra.
      Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Scoresby Bay, Canada

  1. Carex glacialis

    1. Carex glacialisCarex glacialis
      Original image
      Saxifraga
      Image author: Michael Koltzenburg ©

      Sweden
    2. Carex glacialisCarex glacialis
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©

      July 2001, Boat Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Limestone barrens
    3. Carex glacialisCarex glacialis
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©

      July 2002, Bear Cove, Newfoundland. Limestone gravel pit.

  1. Carex glareosa

    1. Carex glareosaCarex glareosa
      Original image
      Bilder ur Nordens Flora
      Image author: C.A.M. Lindman

      from C.A.M. Lindman's Flora, with kind permission from Project Runeberg (runeberg.org/, Sweden). All images have been processed by Dr. Gerhard Keuck to remove background and improve contrast.
    2. Carex glareosaCarex glareosa
      Original image
      Canada's Polar Life
      Image author: Hebert PDN, Wearing-Wilde J, eds. Canada's Polar Life [Internet]. CyberNatural Software, University

    3. Carex glareosaCarex glareosa
      Original image
      Flora of Iceland
      Image author: Hörður Kristinsson ©

    4. Carex glareosaCarex glareosa
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Inge Jahren ©

      VF Svelvik: Knemstranda. 2004.

  1. Carex loliacea

    1. Carex loliaceaCarex loliacea
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      July 1995, Kitkaniemi, Kuusamo, Finland
    2. Carex loliaceaCarex loliacea
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      July 1995, Kitkaniemi, Kuusamo, Finland

  1. Carex lugens

    1. Carex lugensCarex lugens
      Original image

      Image author: Harry Charles Creutzburg ©
      illustrations created by Harry Charles Creutzburg for Kenneth Kent Mackenzie's (1940) North American Cariceae, two volumes edited by Harold William Rickett and published by the New York Botanical Garden.

  1. Carex lyngbyei

    1. Carex lyngbyeiCarex lyngbyei
      Original image
      Alaska National Heritage Program
      Image author: Logan Sander, Oregon State University ©

    2. Carex lyngbyeiCarex lyngbyei
      Original image
      Flora of Iceland
      Image author: Hörður Kristinsson ©

    3. Carex lyngbyeiCarex lyngbyei
      Original image

      Image author: Harry Charles Creutzburg ©
      illustrations created by Harry Charles Creutzburg for Kenneth Kent Mackenzie's (1940) North American Cariceae, two volumes edited by Harold William Rickett and published by the New York Botanical Garden.

  1. Carex media

    1. Carex mediaCarex media
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Norman Hagen ©
      ssp. norvegica

  1. Carex membranacea

    1. Carex membranaceaCarex membranacea
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA; June 29, 2007
    2. Carex membranaceaCarex membranacea
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Susan Aiken ?
      Close-up of inflorescence. Multispicate inflorescence with two staminate spikes and one mature pistillate spike with shiny purplish black perigynia.
      Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit. Canada.
    3. Carex membranaceaCarex membranacea
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Mollie MacCormac ?
      Plant in habitat. Isolated plants, about 10 cm high, growing in the water of a seepage slope of rock and silt.
      Nunavut, Ellesmere Island, Franklin Pierce Bay 79?26'N, 75?38'W. S.G. Aiken 98-032. Canada.
    4. Carex membranaceaCarex membranacea
      Original image
      Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
      Image author: Susan Aiken ?
      Plants in habitat, growing beside small pond.
      Nunavut, Baffin Island, Iqaluit. Canada.
    5. Carex membranaceaCarex membranacea
      Original image

      Image author: Harry Charles Creutzburg ©
      illustrations created by Harry Charles Creutzburg for Kenneth Kent Mackenzie's (1940) North American Cariceae, two volumes edited by Harold William Rickett and published by the New York Botanical Garden.

  1. Carex nardina

    1. Carex nardinaCarex nardina
      Original image
      Flora of Iceland
      Image author: Hörður Kristinsson ©

  1. Carex obtusata

    1. Carex obtusataCarex obtusata
      Original image
      University of South Bohemia Department of Botany
      Image author: unknown

    2. Carex obtusataCarex obtusata
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: E.G. Hurd, N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich
      Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden. Courtesy of USDA FS RMRS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab.
    3. Carex obtusataCarex obtusata
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: E.G. Hurd, N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich
      Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden. Courtesy of USDA FS RMRS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab.

  1. Carex ramenskii

    1. Carex ramenskiiCarex ramenskii
      Original image
      Alaska National Heritage Program
      Image author: Gerald Tande ©
      Extensive <em>Carex ramenskii</em>, coastal sedge marshes
      Lake Clark National Park and Preserve

  1. Carex rariflora

    1. Carex rarifloraCarex rariflora
      Original image
      Saxifraga
      Image author: Michael Koltzenburg ©
      Flowering plant

  1. Carex rostrata

    1. Carex rostrataCarex rostrata
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Jan Wesenberg ©

      Norway, 2004
    2. Carex rostrataCarex rostrata
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Jan Wesenberg ©

      Norway, 2005
    3. Carex rostrataCarex rostrata
      Original image
      Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
      Image author: Jan Wesenberg ©

    4. Carex rostrataCarex rostrata
      Original image
      www.hlasek.com
      Image author: Josef Hlasek ©

    5. Carex rostrataCarex rostrata
      Original image
      www.hlasek.com
      Image author: Josef Hlasek ©

  1. Carex rotundata

    1. Carex rotundataCarex rotundata
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©
      Plant in seed
      Finland, Kilpisjärvi, 7/25/04

  1. Carex rupestris

    1. Carex rupestrisCarex rupestris
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: E.G. Hurd ©
      Field guide to Intermountain sedges (PDF). Gen. Tech. Rep. RMS-GTR-10. USDA FS RMRS, Ogden, UT. Courtesy of USDA FS RMRS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab.Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, &amp; S. Goodrich. 1998.
    2. Carex rupestrisCarex rupestris
      Original image
      Alaska Geobotany Center
      Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©

      Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA: July, 2007

  1. Carex saxatilis L. ssp. laxa

    1. Carex saxatilisCarex saxatilis
      Original image
      The Flora of Svalbard
      Image author: Inger Greve Alsos
      Spread in fjordareas on Spitsbergen and Edgeøya
      Longyearbyen, Svalbard
    2. Carex saxatilisCarex saxatilis
      Original image
      The Flora of Svalbard
      Image author: Inger Greve Alsos

      Sassendalen, Svalbard
    3. Carex saxatilisCarex saxatilis
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: E.G. Hurd, N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich
      Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden. Courtesy of USDA FS RMRS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab.
    4. Carex saxatilisCarex saxatilis
      Original image
      USDA PLANTS Database
      Image author: Robert H. Mohlenbrock ©
      Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute.
      1992, West Region, Sacramento, California

  1. Carex scirpoidea

    1. Carex scirpoideaCarex scirpoidea
      Original image

      Image author: Harry Charles Creutzburg ©
      illustrations created by Harry Charles Creutzburg for Kenneth Kent Mackenzie's (1940) North American Cariceae, two volumes edited by Harold William Rickett and published by the New York Botanical Garden.

  1. Carex tenuiflora

    1. Carex tenuifloraCarex tenuiflora
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      June 1993, Finland, Hämeenkyrö, Sarkkila
    2. Carex tenuifloraCarex tenuiflora
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      June 1993, Finland, Hämeenkyrö, Sarkkila

  1. Carex vaginata

    1. Carex vaginataCarex vaginata
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©
      Inflorescence
      July 2003, Raleigh, Newfoundland, Canada. Burnt Cape. Limestone barrens
    2. Carex vaginataCarex vaginata
      Original image
      Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and Labrador
      Image author: John Maunder ©
      Male and female spikes
      July 2003, Raleigh, Newfoundland, Canada. Burnt Cape. Limestone barrens
    3. Carex vaginataCarex vaginata
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      August 1994, Finland, Pirkkala, Kränstolppa
    4. Carex vaginataCarex vaginata
      Original image
      Finnish Tree of Life
      Image author: Harri Arkkio ©

      May 1993, Finland, Ylöjärvi, Mastosjärvi

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