Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.
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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 on very short rhizomes, 3–8 dm; larger lvs 4–10(–13) mm wide, often surpassing the stem; terminal spike staminate, sessile or nearly so, scarcely surpassing the uppermost pistillate spike and much overtopped by the bracts; pistillate spikes short-cylindric, 1–3 cm, the lower on long-exserted (but not basal) peduncles, the upper short-peduncled or subsessile, the upper 1 or 2 contiguous to the staminate spike; pistillate scales triangular-ovate, half to fully as long as the perigynium, acute or cuspidate; perigynia crowded in several rows, ellipsoid to obovoid, 2.2–4 mm, sharply several-nerved, abruptly contracted to a short, straight or abruptly outcurved beak; achene concavely trigonous, loosely enveloped; 2n=42. Wet meadows and swales, chiefly in calcareous districts; Que. and Me. to Sask., s. to Fla., Okla., and ne. Tex. (C. haleana; C. rectior; C. shriveri)