Scirpus hudsonianus (Michx.) Fernald
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stems clustered on a rather short, freely rooting rhizome, 1–4 dm, sharply triquetrous, antrorsely scaberulous on the angles, bearing several ± reduced scale-lvs at the base and 1 or 2 more normal lvs a little higher, these with narrow blade 5–12 mm; spikelet 1, terminal, brown, 5–7 mm, mostly 10–20-fld, the invol represented only by 2 or 3 empty scales at the base (these often deciduous as the spikelet approaches full maturity), the lowest scale with a strong midrib prolonged into a blunt mucro 0.5–2 mm; scales lance-ovate, blunt; bristles 6, white, flattened, crisped, elongate and much surpassing the scales, at maturity forming a silky-white tuft extending 1–2 cm beyond the end of the spikelet; anthers 0.6–1.1 mm; achene trigonous, brown, narrowly obovoid, 1–5 mm, apiculate; 2n=58. Bogs; circumboreal, extending s. to Conn., N.Y., Mich., Minn., and B.C. Fr June–Aug. (Eriophorum alpinum; Trichophorum alpinum) Transitional to Eriophorum.