GOLDEN SEDGE 



Carex aurea Nuttall 



Sharp eyes are needed to find this attractive sedge in fruit, for 

 it grows near the ground among other grasses and plants. Its seeds 

 are heavy in proportion to the slender stems, and the bunches are 

 borne over toward the ground. We have frequently found it on the 

 flats of glacier-fed streams, where the hot mid-day sun melted the 

 ice and sent down a flood of water every afternoon. 



Golden sedge has a wide range, being found from Pennsylvania 

 and Connecticut to Newfoundland, and westward to New Mexico 

 and California and northward to Yukon. 



The specimen sketched was obtained at Lone Pine Camp, in the 

 valley of the Siffleur River in Alberta, Canada, at an altitude of 

 5,000 feet. 



PLATE 2.81 



