Taxon: Carex kobomugi Ohwi

• the 5 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CT*, MA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Asiatic sand sedge   (Source: A. Molina, p.c.) – English
  
• Japanese sedge   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English
  
• shai cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• fude-kusa   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• kōbō-mugi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Weed   (fide NPB State Noxweed/CT)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shandong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido [w.], Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Connecticut Invasive Plants Council. 2005. Connecticut invasive plants list. [ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CT/invasives/WordInvasivesListCommonNameW-Authors4PDF.pdf].
• Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. 1993–. Flora of Taiwan, 2nd ed.
• Egorova, T. V. 1999. The sedges (Carex L.) of Russia and adjacent states.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Govaerts, R. & D. A. Simpson. 2007. World checklist of Cyperaceae, sedges.
• Molina G., A. M. 2011. Review of Cyperaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 31 Mar.
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Tai Hyun Chung. 1965. Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea, vol. 5, Tracheophyta.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Carex kobomugi.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Carex kobomugi.

Check other web resources for Carex kobomugi Ohwi:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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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