Flora of North America species comparison

2–15 cm × 0.3–0.5 mm.

7–35 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm.

1–6 cm × 0.4–0.6 mm.

longest involucral leaf spreading to reflexed, 3–10 cm × 1.5–1.7 mm.

spikes 1–2, ovoid (to globose), 1–5(–8) × 1–2.5 mm;

bracts 1–2, longest erect, 1–3.5 cm × 0.3–0.5 mm.

spikes (1–)2–4(–5), ovoid, 2–8 × 2–4 mm;

bracts 2–3, 1–13 cm × 1–2 mm.

floral scales 2; 1st scale light brown to reddish brown, with greenish midvein, obtrullate to rhomboid, 0.9–1.6 × 0.3–0.6 mm, widest at mid length, long-acuminate, curving outward; 2d scale oblong, veinless (occasionally 2–4 reddish veins), 0.5–0.8 × 0.2 mm; 3d scale absent;

stamens 1;

anthers 0.2 mm;

stigmas 2.

floral scales 2–3; 1st scale obtrullate, 1–1.8 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acuminate, outward curving 0.2–0.3 mm; 2d scale sometimes absent, oblong, 0.6–1.1 × 0.2 mm; 3d scale sometimes absent, oblong, 0.6–1 × 0.2 mm;

stamens 1–2;

anthers 0.25 mm;

stigmas 2.

obovoid to terete, 0.5–0.8 × 0.25–0.35 mm, 1.5–2.5 times long as wide.

narrowly ellipsoid to obovoid, terete, 0.7–1 × 0.15–0.20 mm, 3.5–5 times long as wide.