• Pistillate Spikes Pedunculate & Erect
• 3 Stigmas
• Glabrous Leaf Blades, Sheaths, Perigynia
• Perigynia in Flower ~3.5 mm Long, Erect/Ascending, & Subterete
• Bract Subtending Lowest Pistillate Spike with Sheath
• Terminal Spike Entirely Staminate
• Lower Sheaths Green Colored
• Pistillate Scales with Brown Colored Margins & Cuspidate or with Short Awns
Growing on steep, dry to dry-mesic northwest facing slope above cliff; Thin woods. Associating with Acer saccharum, Ostrya virginiana, Fraxinus americana, Populus grandidentata, Tilia americana, Quercus rubra, Juniperus virginiana, Dodecatheon amethystinum, Carex pensylvanica, Carex eburnea, Carex sprengelii, Craex blanda, Smilacina racemosa, Polygonatum biflorum, Carex rosea, Besseya bullii, Galium concinnum, Galium aparine.
4 clumps.
Carex pensylvanica labeled with "P," and Carex inops heliophila labeled with "I."
Identified during the Wetland Flora Workshop by Institute of Botanical Training.
common here, this specimen one of the most vigorous