Flora of North America species comparison

phyllopodic, with dead leaf remains at base, 5–35 cm.

8.8–28 cm.

blades 1–2.5 mm wide, margins sometimes involute, scabrid at tip.

basal sheaths dark reddish to purplish brown;

blades mostly basal, dark green, equaling or mostly exceeding culms, 1.4–4 mm wide, thick, margins smooth or scabrous.

proximal bracts 0.5-2 cm, much shorter than inflorescences;

lateral spikes 6–15 × 3.5–5 mm, with 2–10 perigynia;

terminal spikes 6–20 × 1–2.5 mm.

peduncles of basal pistillate spikes filiform, arching, to 13 cm;

peduncles of terminal staminate spikes 2–6 cm;

proximal bracts short-sheathing; pistillate spikes 2–5, mostly emerging from basal nodes, proximal spikes arching, distal ones ascending, short-pedunclulate, widely separated, often with 1–2 staminate flowers at apex, obovoid to ellipsoid;

terminal staminate spikes usually with 2–5 pistillate flowers at base, 7.5–9.8 × 1.8–2.3 mm.

2.5–4.5 × 1.6–2 mm, apex rounded;

beak absent.

obovoid to oblanceoloid, 3.7–6 × 1.4–1.7 mm, base tapering, pubescent with short straight hairs;

beak bent, 0.2–0.4 mm.

ellipsoid, 2.5 × 1.5–1.6 mm.

scales circular-ovate, 3–4.8 × 2.2–3.4 mm, long as and wider than perigynia, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate.

scales oblanceolate to obovate, 3.2–4.8 × 1.5–2 mm, apex acute to obtuse.

2–2.5 mm.

2–3.6 mm.

pistillate scales pale brown to reddish brown, ovate to obovate, apex retuse or truncate to obtuse, cuspidate; staminate scales dark reddish brown, ovate, apex cuspidate.

3, thin, flexuous, strongly papillose.

= 52.

= 26.