Carex comosa 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 - Much like no. 200 [Carex hystericina Willd.]; stems stout; lowest bract surpassing and sometimes several times as long as the infl; terminal spike to 6 cm, staminate or sometimes androgynous or gynaecandrous or with the perigynia in the middle; pistillate spikes 2–7, loose and ± nodding on slender peduncles, tending to be rather closely grouped together; perigynia ± reflexed, firm-textured and only slightly or scarcely inflated, obtusely trigonous, tapering to a short-stipitate base, and very gradually tapering above to the long beak with slender, firm, arcuate or divergent teeth 1.2–2.3 mm; mature style straight or seldom flexuous or contorted. Swamps and wet meadows; Que. to Minn., s. to Fla. and La.; Wash. to Calif. and n. Ida.