Golden Sedge, Pumpkin Sedge: Carex aurea

The photo at left shows the male (upper) and female spikes (lower) of golden sedge as seen in a vernal riparian area in the public hunting area to the west of Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR to the southeast of Mt. Adams.........July 16, 2008. The habitat of this sedge is at the edge of the large lake that forms in this area during the late winter and early spring (probably no more than a foot deep at this site at that time) and dries up by early June. The photo at right shows the inflorescence of golden sedge as seen in wetlands along the Willard Springs Trail, Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge......June 11, 2020.

Additional close-ups of the inflorescence of golden sedge as seen in a vernal riparian area in the public hunting area to the west of Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR to the southeast of Mt. Adams..........July 12, 2011.

The photo above shows a close-up view of the terminal male spike of golden sedge as seen in a vernal riparian area in the public hunting area to the west of Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR to the southeast of Mt. Adams.........July 16, 2008.

The photo above shows a close-up view of the female spike of golden sedge as seen in a vernal riparian area in the public hunting area to the west of Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR to the southeast of Mt. Adams..........July 16, 2008. Note the clusters of globose, mature perigynia, a characteristic of this species.