Carex bebbii 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 - Densely tufted, 2–9 dm, aphyllopodic; lvs elongate, mostly 2–4 mm wide; sheaths ventrally hyaline; spikes 4–12, gynaecandrous, 5–9 mm, pale greenish to stramineous or light brown, sessile in a compact, crowded spike or head 1.5–3 cm; bracts inconspicuous, even the lowest one shorter than the infl, pistillate scales shorter and narrower than the perigynia, largely hyaline-scarious except for the firmer, often greenish midrib; perigynia crowded, stiffly ascending (the beaks often standing out from the body of the spike), ovate, 2.7–3.7 × 1.1–1.5 mm, 2–2.7(–3) times as long as wide, planoconvex, evidently nerved on both sides or nerveless ventrally, wing-margined and serrulate, tapering to an ill-defined, flattened, serrulate beak; achene lenticular, 1.1–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm; 2n=68. Wet meadows and shores, especially in calcareous soil; Nf. to B.C., s. to N.J., Ill., Nebr., and Colo.