Original identification: Carex pachystachya
Current identification: Carex pachystachya
Photographer: Peter Zika
Date Photographed: August 15, 2009
Location: U.S.A., Oregon, Douglas County: East side of Route 138, milepost 84, 0.8 road miles south of junction with Route 230 at south end of Diamond Lake, Cascade Range crest. Sunny pumice roadside, xeric now, with Carex rossii, Rumex acetosella, Cistanthe, Lupinus lepidus, Sitanion.
Elevation: [not provided]
Coordinates: 43.113333° N, 122.131667° W
Phenology: Fruits
Comments: Cespitose, scales dark, perigynia spreading, 3.3 - 3.8 x 1.5 - 1.9 millimeters, middle-body wings 0.3 - 0.5 millimeters wide.
Voucher Specimen: Peter F. Zika 24593, WTU Herbarium