Taxon: Carex bigelowii Torr. ex Schwein.

Common names:

• stiff sedge   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Taymyr, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Yamal Nenets
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - Karelia, Komi, Murmansk, Nenets
  Southeastern Europe: Romania
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Egorova, T. V. 1999. The sedges (Carex L.) of Russia and adjacent states.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carex bigelowii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Carex bigelowii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carex bigelowii.

Check other web resources for Carex bigelowii Torr. ex Schwein.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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