Carex bigelowii Torrey ex Schweinitz (Q396)

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Carex bigelowii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis
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Carex bigelowii Torrey ex Schweinitz
Carex bigelowii is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phacocystis

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    taxon/id/Carex bigelowii Torrey ex Schweinitz
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    Carex bigelowii Torrey ex Schweinitz
    Carex bigelowii
    Torrey ex Schweinitz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Bigelow's sedge (English)
    carex de Bigelow (French)
    Europe
    Plants cespitose or not.
    Culms acutely angled, 10–50 cm, scabrous.
    Leaves: sheaths of proximal leaves glabrous, fronts lacking spots and veins, apex concave;
    blades 1.5–4 mm wide.
    Inflorescences: proximal bract setaceous or foliaceous, shorter than inflorescence, 0.5–3 mm wide.
    proximal (1–) 2–3 spikes pistillate, 0.7–3 cm × 3–4 mm, base cuneate or attenuate;
    terminal 1 (–2) spikes staminate.
    Pistillate scales black, equaling or shorter than perigynia, apex obtuse or acute, awnless.
    Perigynia ascending, green, spotted purple-black or mottled on apical 1/2, veinless, somewhat flattened, tightly enclosing the achenes, ellipsoid, 1.5–3.5 × 0.9–2 mm, dull, apex rounded or acute, papillose;
    stipe to 0.45 mm;
    beak 0–0.2 (–1) mm.
    Achenes not constricted, dull.