Carex xerantica L.H.Bailey
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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 - Densely tufted, aphyllopodic, 3–7 dm; main lvs generally much shorter than the stem, 2–4 mm wide; bracts inconspicuous; spikes 3–6, gynaecandrous, 8–17 mm, ovoid-elliptic, sessile in a short stiff spike 1–2 cm; pistillate scales brown with paler margins, or largely white- hyaline, ± concealing the perigynia, these ± strongly appressed, elliptic or ovate, slightly to strongly planoconvex, 4.5–7 × 1.9–2.8 mm, 2.1–2.9 times as long as wide, lightly to evidently multinerved on both sides, or the ventral side nearly nerveless, the body wing-margined and distally serrulate, tapering to the mostly ill-defined, flattened, strongly margined and serrulate beak; achene lenticular, 2–3 × 1.2–1.6 mm; 2n=68. Bluffs, dry hillsides, and grassy plains; Alta. to Ariz., e. to Man., Minn. and Neb.