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Carex lurida Wahlenb.  

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Family: Cyperaceae
shallow sedge
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Peter W. Ball & A. A. Reznicek in Flora of North America (vol. 23)
Plants densely to loosely cespitose; rhizomes short, no more than 10 cm. Culms sharply trigonous in cross section, (15-)25-95(-110) cm, scabrous-angled distally. Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, widest leaves (4-)4.5-11.5(-13) mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences 2.7-18 cm; proximal bract 9-45 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal 1-3(-4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal often spreading, (12-)15-22 mm thick, if spikes less than 15 mm thick, then usually less than 2.5 times as long as wide; terminal 1 spike staminate. Pistillate scales narrowly oblong, 3.4-11.2 × 0.5-1.1 mm, as long as or shorter than perigynia, margins often ciliate, apex truncate to retuse, erose, prolonged to scabrous awn. Staminate scales with distinct, scabrous awn, sometimes ciliate-margined. Perigynia spreading, strongly 7-12-veined, veins separate nearly to beak apex, broadly ovate, (6-)6.5-10.8 × (1.8-)2-3.5(-4.2), apex contracted; beak 2.5-5.9 mm, 0.7-0.9 length of body, bidentate, smooth, teeth straight, to 0.2-0.8 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes yellow to brown, trigonous, papillose. Fruiting May-Aug. Wet meadows, marshes, seeps, shores of ponds, lakes, and streams, open swamp forests, ditches, mostly in acidic, often sandy soils; 0-1200 m; Nfld. & Labr., N.S., Ont., Que.; Ala., Ark., Conn., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.; Mexico, West Indies, South America. Carex lurida is an abundant, variable, and often weedy species. A few specimens appear to be hybrids of C. lurida with C. lupulina.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Tufted, without long rhizomes; stems aphyllopodic, 2-10 dm, usually surpassed by the lvs, obtusely trigonous and smooth or nearly so, purplish at base; lvs septatenodulose, with flat blade (2-) 4-7 mm wide; ligule triangular, distinctly longer than wide; terminal spike staminate, 1-7 cm, its scales with the midrib prolonged into an evident awn; pistillate spikes 1-4, approximate, or the lower remote, sessile and erect or (especially the lower) evidently pedunculate and even drooping, 1-7.5 נ1.4-2 cm, densely fld; bracts leafy, surpassing the infl, with or without a sheathing base; pistillate scales rough-awned, or the upper merely acuminate; perigynia numerous, in many rows, 6-9 mm, ovoid or ovoid-globose, somewhat inflated, pale, smooth and shining, strongly ca 10-nerved, with a slender, bidentate beak half to almost as long as the body; achene concavely trigonous, densely granular, loosely enveloped in the lower part of the perigynium, the persistent style twisted or abruptly bent. Swamps and wet meadows and woods; N.S. to Minn., s. to Fla. and Mex.

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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