CURLY-STYLED WOOD SEDGE
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Carex rosea  Schkuhr ex  Willd.
Jefferson County, Kansas
Perennial
Height: 8-20 inches
Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family
Flowering Period:   April, May, June
Culms: Erect to spreading, slender, sharply triangular, glabrous, shorter than to mostly longer than leaves.
Leaves: Green to light green, 4/5 to 12 inches long, 1/16 to 1/10 inch wide.
Sheaths: Tight around culm.
Ligules: U-shaped, less than 1/12 inch long.
Inflorescences: Stiff, open, .8 to 2.8 inches long, 4-8 spikes, lowermost spikes well separated, uppermost sometimes overlapping; lowermost bracts hair-like, 1/12 to 3.2 inches long, shorter than to sometimes up to twice as long as inflorescence; spikes sessile, inconspicuously staminate toward tip, pistillate at base, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, 1/5 to 1/3 inch wide; pistillate scales ovate to triangular-ovate, 1/2 length of perigynia, transparent with green midrib; tip blunt, pointed or awned; perigynia 7-14, radiating in all directions, lanceolate to ovate in outline, 1/10 to 1/6 inch long, 2-3 times as long as wide, green; base round, spongy; tip tapering to short beak; not white transparent at orifice.
Flowers: Achene, egg-shaped, less than 1/12 inch long, 1-seeded; stigmas 2, short, stout, twisted or coiled.
Habitat: Moist to dry, open woods.
Distribution: East 1/5 of Kansas.
Comments: Forms tufts.

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