{"id":549,"date":"2015-09-07T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T15:03:03","slug":"few-seeded-sedge-carex-oligosperma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Few-seeded sedge <em>(Carex oligosperma)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_550\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/few-seeded_sedge_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/few-seeded_sedge_01-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"few-seeded sedge\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/few-seeded_sedge_01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/few-seeded_sedge_01.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Peter M. Dzuik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Few-seeded sedge <em>(Carex oligosperma)<\/em> is found in bogs, sedge meadows, and peaty wetlands. It grows only in acidic soils. It is common in bogs along with woolly-fruit sedge, where the long rhizomes of the two sedges weave together and help create floating vegetative mats. The leaves are wiry, stiff, and no more than \u215b\u2033 wide, giving this plant one of its other common names, wiregrass.<\/p>\n<p>This species is identified by narrow leaves with margins rolled inward; reddish-purple sheaths of basal leaves; lack of cross lines between the veins of the leaf sheath; unisexual flower spikes; and short, plump pistillate spikes with just 3 to 15 spikelets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/few-seeded_sedge.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/few-seeded_sedge.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=549\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few-seeded sedge (Carex oligosperma) is found in bogs, sedge meadows, and peaty wetlands. It grows only in acidic soils. It is common in bogs along with woolly-fruit sedge, where the long rhizomes of the two sedges weave together and help create floating vegetative mats. The leaves are wiry, stiff, and no more than \u215b\u2033 wide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[198,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}