Golden Sedge, Pumpkin Sedge: Carex aurea

Golden sedge as seen in a moist roadside ditch along Forest Service Road 16 at Summit Prairie, Malheur National Forest........August 20, 2011.

Golden sedge as seen in wet meadows at one of the heads of Little Cottonwood Creek where the Arizona Creek Road reaches a pass at Stergen Meadows in the Pueblo Mountains.........June 1, 2012.

Golden sedge observed in wet meadows along the Little Naches River Road, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest......June 9, 2019.

The photo above 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 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.