Carex lepidocarpa

Much like no. 154 [Carex flava L.]; staminate spike on a long peduncle surpassing the uppermost pistillate spike; most pistillate spikes remote; perigynia 3.5-5 mm, conspicuously swollen, the body nearly as wide as long, abruptly contracted to the beak, the central ones spreading, only the lower deflexed; 2n=58, 68. Wet places in calcareous districts; Europe, and locally from N.S. to Nf. and e. Que. (C. flava var. l.)

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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