OregonFlora species comparison

sheath fronts green and veined throughout; except for a white-hyaline triangle to 6 mm long near the top, sometimes prolonged 1.5–6 mm above the base of the blade;

blades (2.5)3–4(5) mm wide.

2–5 mm wide; more or less white papillate (at 15×) on the lower surface.

3.5–8 cm × 10– 13 mm, elongated but with overlapping spikes, green to straw-colored;

spikes ovate, gynaecandrous.

spikes 3–5;

lateral spikes female, 1–3 cm × 6–8 mm; lower spikes often dangling on moderately long peduncles but upper ones short-pedunculate to sessile; terminal spike male, 1.2– 3.2 cm × 3–8 mm.

ovate to broadly ovate, 3.2–4.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, green, white, or straw-colored, with 1–8 veins on each face;

beak white or straw-colored at tip, winged and ciliate-serrulate; (1.5)1.8–2.4 mm from top of achene to tip of beak;

stigmas 2.

narrowly elliptic, 3.8–6.8 × 1.7–2.3 mm, light green or sometimes marked with dark purple, 10–15-veined;

beak 0.1–0.3 mm long;

stigmas 3.

lenticular; (1.3)1.5–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick.

trigonous and filling about 60% of the perigynium body.

2.7–3.5 mm long; shorter and narrower than the perigynia, white hyaline or straw-colored;

midrib green; straw-colored, or brown.

narrower and longer than the perigynia (though the scale body itself may be shorter), dark brown or black, often with a lighter midrib, awned; awns 1–3 mm long in Oregon (to 12 mm long in more northern sites).

=60.