Carex blanda Dewey
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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, 2–6 dm; fertile stems triangular and slightly winged, minutely serrulate above; basal sheaths ± brown; lvs of the sterile shoots to ca 10 mm wide, those of the fertile ones a little narrower; angles of the bract-sheaths minutely ciliate-serrulate; terminal spike staminate, 1–2 cm, on a short to elongate peduncle, often overtopped by the uppermost bract; pistillate spikes 3–4, 1.5–2 cm, scattered or the upper 2 approximate, none basal; pistillate scales prominently cuspidate or short-awned; perigynia 4–18, crowded and overlapping, greenish or yellowish-green, 2.5–4 mm, finely many-nerved as well as 2-ribbed, obtusely trigonous, obovoid, abruptly contracted to a short, abruptly bent beak with entire orifice; achene obtusely trigonous; 2n=36, 38, 40. Dry to mesic woods, sometimes weedy; Me. and s. Que. to N.D., s. to Ga., nw. Fla., and Tex. (C. amphibola; C. laxiflora var. b.)