444 Carex canescens L.

Syn.: C. curta Good.

This mainly boreal species has a circumpolar distribution (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 90 and map 82). It also occurs as a native plant in S. America (from Valdivia to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Is.), SE. Australia and New Guinea. Thus, it is a bipolar plant (Du Rietz in Acta phyt. Suec. 13/1940, p. 216). World map in Meusel et al. 1965, p. 68.