LEAVENWORTH'S SEDGE
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Carex leavenworthii Dewey
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| Woodson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-32 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May, June |
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| Culms: | | Slender, strongly triangular, rough; base pale brown, wider than distal portion of culm. | | Leaves: | | Blades 3-5, pale green, flat, 1 to 16 inches long, .04 to .16 inch wide, on lower third of culm. | | Sheaths: | | Tight around culm, green or green-and-white-mottled, fronts hyaline; ligule U-shaped, to .08 inch, usually longer than wide. | | Ligules: | | U-shaped, to .08 inch, usually longer than wide. | | Inflorescences: | | Dense heads; bracts subtending inflorescence hair-like, .08 to .8 inch long, shorter than inflorescence; spikes 3-8, crowded, nearly spherical to oblong, .28 to .8 inch long, .4 inch wide, staminate spikes above pistillate, spikes with 6-10 ascending or spreading perigynia; staminate spikes scales pale brown, narrowly lanceolate, to .06 inch wide; pistillate scales hyaline with green mid-vein, ovate, .06 to .1 inch long, ca. .04 inch wide, about half as long as perigynia, acute to cuspidate; perigynia pale green, ovate, .1 to .14 inch, broadest at base, tapering to short, minutely toothed beak. | | Fruits: | | Achene, nearly circular, .04 to .06 inch; stigmas 2, rust-colored. | | Habitat: | | Open woods, woodland edges, dry grasslands, roadsides; sandy or calcareous soils. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Forms loose tufts. |
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| Leavenworth's sedge |  | | 50 KB | | Woodson County, Kansas |
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