Carex joorii L.H.Bailey
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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 from stout creeping rhizomes, 4–13 dm, stout; main lvs elongate, glaucous, 5–10 mm wide; staminate spike 3–5 cm; pistillate spikes 3–5, separate but overlapping, 2–6 cm, staminate at the tip, usually ± erect, the lower long-peduncled, the upper less so or subsessile; lowest bract lf- like, the upper much reduced and setaceous; pistillate scales oblong, the body shorter than the perigynium, brown- tinged, the midvein prolonged into a rough awn; perigynia dull green and glaucous when young, becoming brown, broadly obovoid, 3.2–5 mm, tapering to the base, conspicuously several-nerved, broadly rounded above into a prominent, short beak with an entire orifice; achene concavely trigonous. Wet woods and swamps, mainly on the coastal plain; se. Va. (and reputedly Md.) to Fla. and Tex., n. in the interior to se. Mo. and McCreary Co., Ky.