Carex crawfordii Fernald

• 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

  Carex crawfordii Fernald

• Description

  Species Description - Tufted, 2–7 dm, aphyllopodic; main lvs 1–3 mm wide, shorter than the stems; sheaths ventrally hyaline; spikes 5–12, gynaecandrous, 5–10 mm, subglobose to oblong, pale greenish to dull- stramineous or tan, sessile in a compact spike or narrow head 1.5–3 cm; bracts inconspicuous, or the lowest one to about as long as the infl; pistillate scales shorter and narrower than the perigynia, sometimes mucronulate; perigynia appressed-ascending, planoconvex and not much wider than the achene, 3.3–4 × 0.8–1 mm, 3.5–5 times as long as wide, lightly few-nerved on both sides or nearly nerveless especially ventrally, narrowly wing-margined and serrulate, especially distally, tapering gradually into the slender, distally terete beak; achene lenticular, 1–1.3 × 0.6–0.7 mm; 2n=68, 70. Wet soil, meadows, swamps, and shores; Nf. to B.C., s. to N.J., Mich., Minn., and Wash.