Fuirena

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Cyperaceae

• Scientific Name

  Fuirena

• Description

  Genus Description - Scales numerous, spirally arranged, usually hairy, with an often spreading or recurved awn or mucro, the lowest 1–3 empty; fls perfect, with 1–3 stamens and trifid style; ovary subtended by 3 bristles alternating with 3 perianth-scales ("petals"), the latter long- stipitate, with expanded blade, often awned; achenes trigonous, long-stipitate, beaked-apiculate; leafy- stemmed sedges with strongly veined sheaths, ours with a few spikelets in a terminal head subtended by 2 or 3 ± foliaceous bracts, often with some additional pedunculate axillary clusters. 30, warm reg.

• Common Names

  umbrella-grass