Favoritos de elacroix-carignan

Shore of James Lake. Achenes 3-sided, perigynia & leaf sheaths glabrous, bract of lowest pistillate spike seemed sheathless, scales without awns, perigynia 5 mm long & inflated, lowest pistillate bract about twice as long as the inflorescence. The leaves I collected are a maximum of 6 mm wide; they seem round at the base and flat near the end; not really V-shaped.

A new population of this very rare sedge, state endangered. Nobs are important in cribbage and knobs are important on the achenes of this species for positive identification. This was in a now dry vernal pool with plenty of Dulichium so I know there is a couple feet of water in the pool in spring.

M.J. Oldham 13935; specimen record, replicates at MICH, DAO, NHIC# 03985 (home), +1; identified as Carex lupuliformis by M.J. Oldham, !AA Reznicek "very nice material"; circa 150 fruiting culms, very local in and around ephemeral woodland pond; pop. discovered by Dave McLeod, with C. tribuloides, lupulina, retrorsa

Amazingly, the first record for Norfolk County. I counted 10 clonal colonies of C. lupuliformis and at least five times as many C. lupulina.

In a deep, organic maple swamp with other Lupulinae sedges.

Photo 3 with achenes of C. lupulina for comparison.

Rare turquoise-coloured green frog (genetic mutation) called axanthism, formation or migration of the neural crest is absent which results in a lack of yellow pigments. Several of these rare specimens were photographed in the marsh over the course of two years.