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SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassLiliopsida
4. OrderPoales
5. FamilyCyperaceae

Native toAlaska, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Utah

Plants without conspicuous rhizomes. Culms 20–80 cm, 1.7–2 mm wide basally, 0.6–0.9 mm wide distally. Leaves: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline; ligules less than 3 mm, wider than to as wide as long; widest leaf blades 1–3.5 mm wide. Inflorescences capitate, with 4–8 spikes, individual spikes difficult to distinguish, 0.8–2 cm × 6–15 mm; proximal bracts to 1.5 cm; spikes with 5–10 ascending or spreading perigynia. Pistillate scales brown with green midvein, ovate, 3.8–4.3 × 1.3–2.2 mm, body as long as and slightly narrower than to as wide as perigynium, apex acute to short-awned. Anthers 1.5–2.2 mm. Perigynia dark brown with green margins, veinless or obscurely veined abaxially, 3.2–5 × 1.4–2.5 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.7–1.5 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.6 mm. Achenes suborbiculate, 1.7–2.1 × 1.7–1.8 mm. 2n = 58, 60.

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