HAIRY-LEAVED SEDGE
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Carex hirsutella Mack.
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| Schermerhorn Park, Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-36 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June |
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| Culms: | | Mostly erect, slender, stiff, strongly triangular, pilose; base reddish. | | Leaves: | | Blades to 6 per culm, green, 1 to 12 inches long, .06 to .16 inch wide, flat, margins revolute, surfaces pilose. | | Sheaths: | | Long, tight, densely pilose. | | Inflorescences: | | Terminal spike erect, usually on short peduncle, thick cylindric, .4 to 1 inch tall, .14 to .24 inch, containing both staminate and pistillate flowers, pistillate at top; lateral spikes 2-4, erect to ascending, densely clustered, .3 to .7 inch tall, .12 to .2 inch wide; pistillate scales greenish white with green midrib, ovate, .07 to .1 inch, apex obtuse to acuminate, occasionally mucronate, shorter than perigynia; staminate scales greenish white with green midrib, ovate to lanceolate, .08 to .2 inch, apex acuminate; perigynia 15-30 per spike, ascending, obovoid, bluntly triangular, .08 to .12 inch, glabrous; beak absent. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, triangular with concave sides, .07 to .1 inch, apiculate; stigmas 3. | | Habitat: | | Woods, meadows, roadsides; dry, open, disturbed sites. | | Distribution: | | East 1/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Carex hirsutella is similar to Carex bushii |
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