Carex rariflora (Wahlenb.) Sm.
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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. 178 [Carex limosa L.]; stems rarely over 3 dm, smooth, obtusely triangular; staminate spike 6–15 mm, short-peduncled; pistillate spikes 6–16 mm, with to 10 perigynia, on peduncles of their own length, separated by internodes to 15 mm; lowest bract to 2 cm; pistillate scales dark purple, usually concealing the perigynia and partly enclosing them at base; perigynia 2.8–3.9 mm, more than half as thick as wide, acutish but beakless; 2n=52. Circumboreal, s. in our range to cold bogs in N.B. and on Mt. Katahdin, Me.