Carex leporinella

Bog hare sedge, Bog Hare Sedge

Family: Cyperaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bog hare sedge is a California native perennial sedge found in the Klamath Ranges, Sierra Nevada High Sierra, Sierra Nevada eastern edge, and White and Inyo Mountains in moist meadows and lakeshores at elevations of 1,900 to 4,000 meters. Its inflorescence displays gold to brown spikelets with distinct, generally fusiform shapes, creating delicate clusters. Growing with thin stems and narrow leaves that are typically folded and less than 1.5 millimeters wide, this sedge forms dense, compact clumps. Its leaves feature a small ligule 1 to 2 millimeters long and delicate gold or red-brown bracts with green or gold centers and white margins. The fruit is small, approximately 1.4 to 1.9 millimeters long, with planoconvex perigynia that are gold to nearly white with 3 to 7 subtle veins on each side.

Habitat: Moist or wet meadows, lakeshores

Elevation: 1900-4000 m

Bioregions: KR, SNH, SNE (Sweetwater Mtns), W&ampI

California counties: Fresno, Mono, Siskiyou, Tulare, Tuolumne, Nevada, Inyo, Shasta, El Dorado, Alpine, Madera, Mariposa, Calaveras, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Mendocino, Trinity, Humboldt, San Francisco, Butte, Placer

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.