Hairy fimbry

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Hairy fimbry

Hairy fimbry inflorescence

Hairy fimbry spikelets

Morphology

Culm

Solitary or in small tufts; stiff, glabrous.

Leaves

1-several, basal, ascending, narrowly linear, shorter than to nearly equaling culm, 1/25 to 1/12 inch wide, glabrous or pubescent, margins rolled inward.

Sheath

Basal sheaths pale; sheaths hard, fibrous, tips with marginal hairs.

Ligule

Absent or present.

Inflorescence

Umbel-like to cyme-like, simple or compound, ascending-branching; lower leafy involucral bracts exceeding or exceeded by inflorescence; rays 1-5, unequal, spreading; spikelets red-brown, broadly ovoid to lance-cylindric, 1/5 to 2/5 inch long, several-flowered; scales spirally arranged, overlapping in several series, ovate, 1/10 to 1/8 inch, glabrous or minutely pubescent, apiculate.

Fruit

Achenes, yellowish to dark brown, obovoid, less than 1/12 inch, pitted.

Ecology

Habitat

Moist sandy or clay prairies, lake and pond shores.

Distribution

Nearly statewide

Additional Notes