AWLFRUIT SEDGE
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Carex stipata Muhl. & Willd.
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| Ottawa County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 1 to 4 feet |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August |
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| Culms: | | Erect, stiff, strongly triangular, rough, base pale brown. | | Leaves: | | Leaf blades 3--6, green, to 24 inch long, to 2/5 inch wide, flat, margins rough. | | Sheaths: | | Sheaths open, green, prolonged at summit. | | Ligules: | | Longer than wide. | | Inflorescences: | | Elongate, cylindric, to 4 inch long, to 1 1/5 inch wide; bracts bristle-like, to 2 inch long; spikes 15--25, bisexual, staminate flowers above pistillate; pistillate scales transparent to yellowish brown, center green, lanceolate to ovate, much shorter than perigynia; staminate scales pale brown, narrowly lanceolate; perigynia 4--10 per spike, pale brown with reddish brown veins, lanceoloid, 1/6--1/4 inch long, gradually tapering to 2-toothed beak. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, ovate; stigmas 2, reddish brown. | | Habitat: | | Wet prairies and meadows, ditches, marshes. | | Distribution: | | East 3/5 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Tufted, short rhizomatous. A common species found throughout much of the United States. |
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| Awlfruit sedge |  | | 137 KB | | Ottawa County, Kansas |
| | Awlfruit sedge with bottle-brush sedge in background |  | | 131 KB | | Ottawa County, Kansas |
| | Awlfruit sedge inflorescence |  | | 113 KB | | Ottawa County, Kansas |
| | Awlfruit sedge habit |  | | 152 KB | | Ottawa County, Kansas |
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