Carex bicolor Bellardi ex All.

Gillespie, Lynn J., Saarela, Jeffery M., Sokoloff, Paul C. & Bull, Roger D., 2015, New vascular plant records for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, PhytoKeys 52, pp. 23-79 : 28

Carex bicolor Bellardi ex All.

Common name.

Two-coloured sedge

Distribution.

Circumpolar-alpine

Comments.

This is the first report of the species from the western CAA, based on one collection from a sloped sandy riverbank on southern Victoria Island, Nunavut. The species is known from the southeastern CAA (Coats Island, Southampton Island, southern Baffin Island; Porsild and Cody 1980, Aiken et al. 2007). In the western Arctic, Carex bicolor is known from adjacent mainland Nunavut (Bathurst Inlet) and Northwest Territories ( Porsild and Cody 1980, Saarela et al. 2013a).

Specimen examined.

Canada. Nunavut: Kitikmeot Region, Victoria Island, W end of Johansen Bay at mouth of Mackenzie Creek, 68°36'4"N, 111°21'7"W, 0-20 m, 20 July 2008, Gillespie, Saarela, Consaul & Bull 8118 (CAN-592505).