Carex depressa Link

Family: CYPERACEAE

Genus: Carex

Province distribution: Barcelona. Girona. Lleida.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Cosmopolitan and subcosmopolitan

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue.

Characteristics: Along the coast where it ca be found growing in holm-oak woodlands, thickets and moist garrigues, and towards the mountains, where we find it growing in rocky meadows and rock crevices. A perennial grass that produces dimorphic spikes, one male and various females. Can be distinguished from other Carex (mainly C. halleriana) by: its inferior female spike that is set upon a long peduncle that emerges from the stem base, awned female glumes lacking a whitish margin, pubescent utricles and with a beak that is shorter than the glumes.

Observations: The Catalan populations have been referred to the subsp basilaris (Jord.) Kerguélen.