HAIRY FIMBRY
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Fimbristylis puberula (Michx. ) Vahl
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| Anderson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: To 40 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June |
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| Culms: | | Solitary or in small tufts; stiff, glabrous. | | Leaves: | | 1-several, basal, ascending, narrowly linear, shorter than to nearly equaling culm, 1/25 to 1/12 inch wide, glabrous or pubescent, margins rolled inward. | | Sheaths: | | Basal sheaths pale; sheaths hard, fibrous, tips with marginal hairs. | | Ligules: | | Absent or present. | | Inflorescences: | | Umbel-like to cyme-like, simple or compound, ascending-branching; lower leafy involucral bracts exceeding or exceeded by inflorescence; rays 1-5, unequal, spreading; spikelets red-brown, broadly ovoid to lance-cylindric, 1/5 to 2/5 inch long, several-flowered; scales spirally arranged, overlapping in several series, ovate, 1/10 to 1/8 inch, glabrous or minutely pubescent, apiculate. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, yellowish to dark brown, obovoid, less than 1/12 inch, pitted. | | Habitat: | | Moist sandy or clay prairies, lake and pond shores. | | Distribution: | | Nearly statewide | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Two varieties occur in Kansas. |
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| Hairy fimbry spikelets |  | | 150 KB | | Anderson County, Kansas |
| | Hairy fimbry inflorescence |  | | 159 KB | | Anderson County, Kansas |
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