CLUSTERED SEDGE
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Carex aggregata Mack.
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| Anderson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 12 to 40 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Glomerate sedge. | | Culms: | | Tufted. Culm erect, triangular, rough, base pale brown, sides usually grooved. | | Leaves: | | 3-7, pale green, flat, to 20 inches long, 1/8 to 1/5 inch wide, shorter than culm. | | Sheaths: | | Open, loose, throat thickened, upper side green and white mottled, lower side sometimes red dotted. | | Ligules: | | About as wide as long. | | Inflorescences: | | Elongated head, crowded or sometimes interrupted, 1 to 2 inches long, 1/3 to 1/2 inch wide; bracts subulate, to 1 1/5 inch, sometimes absent; spikes 5-10, ascending to spreading; staminate flowers above pistillate; staminate scales pale brown, narrow, acuminate; pistillate scales clear or pale brown with green midvein, ovate, shorter and narrower than perigynia, tips acute to acuminate, less commonly awned; perigynia 5-15 per spike, pale green to pale brown, ovoid, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, 1/12 to 1/8 inch wide, beak 2-toothed, serrulate. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, circular to elliptic-circular, ca. 1/12 inch, apiculate; stigmas 2, reddish brown. | | Habitat: | | Open woods, meadows; usually on calcareous soils. | | Distribution: | | East 1/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Carex aggregata closely resembles Carex gravida. It has darker green perigynia with longer beaks than Carex gravida. |
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| Clustered sedge |  | | 151 KB | | Anderson County, Kansas |
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