WING-FRUITED SEDGE
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Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd. var. scoparia
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| Ellsworth County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-40 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June |
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| Also Called: | | Broom sedge. | | Culms: | | Stiffly erect, usually longer than leaves, sharply triangular, angles very rough above; roots dark brown. | | Leaves: | | Up to 7 per culm, narrow, flat, to 1/5 inch wide, ascending to spreading; margins and veins rough; lowest leaves reduced to scales. | | Sheaths: | | Tight, closely enveloping culm, green-nerved throughout or inner surface white transparent. | | Inflorescences: | | 1/2 to 2 inches long, 1/2 to 1 inch wide; spikes 3-10, crowded or lowest spike separated, egg- to spindle-shaped or nearly spherical, 1/3 to 3/5 inch long, pale green to straw-colored, ascending, sessile, tapering to short points, bisexual; staminate flowers below pistillate; bracts bristle-like or lowest about as long as inflorescence; pistillate scales lanceolate, narrower and shorter than perigynia, tan-transparent, center brown to green, 3-nerved, central nerve lighter; tips gradually tapering to points; perigynia many per spike, flat, to 1/5 inch long, greenish-white, several-nerved; margins winged; beak 1/3 length of body, 2-toothed. | | Fruits: | | Achene, lens-shaped, to 1/20 inch long, brown, 1-seeded; stigmas 2, short, tan to reddish. | | Habitat: | | Wet open sites; sandy shores of lakes, prairie swales, swamps, wet open woods, wet meadows, and roadside ditches. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Wing-fruited sedge grows in dense tufts. |
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| Wing-fruited sedge |  | | 142 KB | | Ellsworth County, Kansas |
| | Wing-fruited sedge inflorescence |  | | 71 KB | | Ellsworth County, Kansas |
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