Cyperus compressus L.
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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 - Tufted annual 1–3 dm; lvs ± basally disposed, flat or folded, 1–2 mm wide; bracts 3–5, surpassing the infl, 1–2 mm wide; spikes few and sessile, or 1–4 rays present and up to 10 cm; spikelets 3–10, digitately spreading, 1–2.5 cm × 2–4 mm, flattened, 10–40-fld; rachilla persistent; scales 2.5–3.5 mm, broadly ovate, keeled, acuminate and with shortly excurrent midrib, multinerved, greenish, with broad, thin, coppery or pale (often also red-lineolate) margins; achenes shining brownish, broadly obovoid- trigonous, 1–1.4 mm. Sandy woods and fields; pantrop., n. near the coast to Del. and inland to Mo.