Carex pellita Muhl.
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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 - Vigorously colonial by creeping rhizomes, 3–10 dm, strongly aphyllopodic; lvs flat or nearly so, 2–5 mm wide; terminal spike staminate, 2–5 cm, often closely subtended by one or 2 shorter, sessile staminate spikes; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, 1–4 cm, rather remote, sessile or the lowest one on an erect slender peduncle, leafy-bracteate, the lowest bract elongate, often surpassing the staminate spikes; pistillate scales partly or wholly brownish or purplish, usually narrower than the perigynia and acute or shortly awn- tipped; perigynia 3–3.5 mm, densely velutinous or velutinous-sericeous, multiribbed, but the ribs ± obscured by the pubescence, the body ovoid to broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, turgid, not much compressed, firm, abruptly contracted to the beak, this 0.8–1.5 mm, including the 0.3–0.9 mm teeth; achene concavely trigonous. Wet meadows and other wet places, sometimes in shallow water, or seldom on stabilized dunes or dry ditch- banks; N.B. and Que. to B.C., s. to Va., Tenn., Ark., and Calif. (C. lanuginosa, misapplied)