Carex deweyana Schwein.
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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 - Much like no. 58 [Carex bromoides Willd.]; main lvs 2-3+ mm wide; spikes pale green or silvery, the lower one often remote and conspicuously surpassed by a subtending bract; pistillate scales largely hyaline or scarious and whitish or light brown, with firmer, greenish, sometimes shortly excurrent midrib, often wholly covering the body of the perigynium, but shorter than the beak; perigynia mostly (5-)10-25, lance- elliptic to rather narrowly elliptic, 4-5.5 mm, a fourth to a third as wide, faintly nerved or nerveless on both sides; achene broad, ± orbicular-obovate, 2-2.5 mm; 2n=54. Woods; Lab. and Nf. to Mack. and B.C., s. to Pa., Mich., Io., Ariz., Calif., and Mex. Our plants are var. deweyana; two other vars. are more western.