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- Carex (section Key E. Spikes 2+ per culm, at least some flowers pistillate; stigmas (2–)3(–4); achenes usually ± trigonous in cross section; body of perigynium glabrous or papillose, papillae then mostly not longer than wide; bracts sheathless or sheath less than 4 mm, rarely longer, then sheath shorter than diameter of stem)wildlife. Many species of Carex occurring in eastern Canada, especially the long-rhizomatous ones, are of high forage value (P. M. Catling et al. 1994). Their80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- base of the distal florets. Glumes (0,1) 2, equal or unequal, shorter or longer than the adjacent florets, sometimes exceeding the distal florets; florets45 KB (1,179 words) - 03:07, 30 July 2020
- as a line of hairs; adaxial ligules membranous, often ciliate with cilia longer than the membranous base, sometimes not ciliate; blades not pseudopetiolate;17 KB (1,499 words) - 04:33, 30 July 2020
- versatile, usually all alike within a floret, sometimes 1 or 2 evidently longer than the others; ovaries 1-loculed, with (1) 2-3 (4) styles or style-branches35 KB (1,876 words) - 02:36, 30 July 2020
- lengths or 1 spikelet sessile. Glumes usually 2, equal or unequal, shorter or longer than the adjacent florets, sometimes exceeding the distal florets; florets17 KB (1,292 words) - 03:56, 30 July 2020
- orbiculate, or ovate, subequal or unequal (outer usually shorter, rarely longer, than inner). Receptacles convex, conic, or flat, paleate (paleae usually21 KB (800 words) - 22:59, 29 July 2020
- ligules of hairs or membranous, if membranous, often ciliate, cilia sometimes longer than the membranous base; blades often with stiff, coarse marginal hairs34 KB (1,217 words) - 04:33, 30 July 2020
- of hairs or membranous, membranous ligules often ciliate, cilia sometimes longer than the membranous base; blades occasionally pseudopetiolate, seldom disarticulating21 KB (1,188 words) - 03:56, 30 July 2020
- or 3, placentas 1 and basal or 3 and axile or parietal; stigmas generally longer than styles. Fruits capsules, loculicidal. Seeds 3–many, often with white6 KB (223 words) - 00:53, 30 July 2020
- bristles in 2–3 series (shorter, outer setiform scales rarely present, outer, longer bristles apically attenuate, inner bristles longest, weakly to strongly3 KB (603 words) - 21:32, 29 July 2020
- the base of the distal floret. Glumes unequal to equal, shorter than to longer than the adjacent florets, subulate, lanceolate, rectangular, ovate, or19 KB (1,548 words) - 02:55, 30 July 2020
- setiform scales or bristles plus inner, longer bristles Bradburia 25 Perennials (caudices woody); basal petioles long-strigoso-ciliate; cauline leaves ± reduced79 KB (1,886 words) - 20:55, 29 July 2020
- to truncate, sometimes minutely ciliolate, sometimes with lateral lobes longer than the central portion; blades narrow, flat, folded, or involute, sometimes42 KB (1,621 words) - 04:38, 30 July 2020
- the distal floret. Glumes exceeded by the distal florets, shorter than to longer than the adjacent lemmas, mostly membranous, scarious distally, 1-11-veined12 KB (1,001 words) - 03:20, 30 July 2020
- campanulate, cylindric, or urceolate, lobes usually much shorter (sometimes longer) than tube; intrastaminal nectary disc absent or present; stamens 8-10 [-16];7 KB (397 words) - 12:54, 30 July 2020
- persistent in fruit, rarely deciduous, variously barbed or plumed, shorter or longer than achene, seldom smooth; stamens 2–3; styles undivided or shallowly 2-fid38 KB (1,253 words) - 01:40, 30 July 2020
- oblanceolate [lanceolate], inner filiform or dorsiventrally flattened and linear, longer than anthers; anthers without distal connective extension; staminodes present16 KB (1,025 words) - 18:17, 29 July 2020
- distributed, hairs on the upper 74 sometimes somewhat longer than those below, not both markedly longer and more divergent, apical hairs to 7 mm, lemma margins28 KB (2,014 words) - 02:45, 30 July 2020
- usually much narrower than their culms; proximal internodes of rachilla as long and as thick as middle and distal internodes; proximal scale usually empty;37 KB (456 words) - 02:15, 30 July 2020
- have the longer diameter of the cross section no more than 3 times the shorter diameter. Pappus elements with “flatter” cross sections (i.e., longer diameter275 KB (5,940 words) - 15:30, 15 December 2020