Carex assiniboinensis W.Boott
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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 - Plants tufted, with 3 kinds of shoots; rosettes, long, arching stolons rooting at the tip, and weak, slender fertile culms 2–6 dm with lvs at base; main lvs 1–3 mm wide; terminal spike 2–3 cm, long-pedunculate, staminate but usually with a single basal perigynium subtended by a prolonged, attenuate scale; pistillate spikes ca 3, widely separate, very loosely fld, 2–4 cm, on slender, spreading to drooping peduncles; pistillate scales ca equaling the perigynia; perigynia narrowly lanceolate, coriaceous, 5.5–8 mm, densely hispidulous; the slender beak as long as the body; achene concavely trigonous; 2n=32. Moist open woods; n. Mich. and n. Wis. to nw. Ont., Sask., the Dakotas, and n. Io.