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- differentiated or with a longer, broader sheathing base and shorter subulate apex. Seta short to ± elongate, yellow to orange, reddish-brown, brown, or reddish12 KB (480 words) - 06:59, 30 July 2020
- Stems 1–20+; bark reddish, reddish-brown, gray-brown, or dark gray; long and short-shoots usually present; thorns present or absent. Leaves deciduous or persistent43 KB (1,828 words) - 14:17, 30 July 2020
- (8–)10–17(–22) mm; phyllaries in ± 3–4 series, apices mostly long-acuminate (innermost short-acuminate); Alabama Liatris oligocephala 16 Involucres hemispheric24 KB (826 words) - 22:52, 29 July 2020
- operculum short-conic to long-convex, sometimes apiculate or rarely rostrate; peristome double; exostome yellow to brown, teeth lanceolate, acuminate; endostome12 KB (668 words) - 07:35, 30 July 2020
- 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)section. Some forest understory species have very broad, flat, short leaves, with short sheaths and may lie essentially flat on the ground. Inflorescence80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- entire to serrulate distally, limbidium present or absent; apex abruptly acute to long-acuminate, hairpoint present or absent; costa single, moderately strong12 KB (631 words) - 07:45, 30 July 2020
- concave, short-acuminate; perichaetial leaves usually convolute-sheathing, abruptly subulate or rarely interior leaves gradually acuminate. Seta solitary26 KB (1,278 words) - 06:56, 30 July 2020
- to subentire; apex gradually or abruptly tapered, obtuse, acute, short–acuminate, apiculate, or rarely long-acuminate; costa to 60–80% leaf length, moderate9 KB (527 words) - 07:49, 30 July 2020
- 1827. Peter W. Ball Treatment appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants cespitose, short-rhizomatous or inconspicuously rhizomatous. Culms: bases brown, rarely red15 KB (529 words) - 01:49, 30 July 2020
- with 2–10 spikes; proximal bracts leaflike, sheathless or short-sheathed, less than 4 mm, shorter or longer than diameter of stem; lateral spikes pistillate14 KB (621 words) - 02:15, 30 July 2020
- glandular-ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse to acute to acuminate, apiculate, or mucronate, surfaces glabrous or long or short-stipitate-glandular, rarely viscid (H. maxima26 KB (1,593 words) - 12:56, 30 July 2020
- proximal cauline petiolate, sometimes short-petiolate (P. immanifestus, P. lentus); cauline sessile, sometimes short-petiolate, blade obovate, ovate, spatulate17 KB (733 words) - 19:07, 29 July 2020
- lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear (cauline, usually progressively, sometimes abruptly or little reduced distally), margins serrate, crenate, or entire, scabrous62 KB (1,546 words) - 15:28, 15 December 2020
- subglobose, apices abruptly short-pointed, obtuse, or 5-apiculate. > 12 12 Leaves mostly opposite; capsules subglobose, apices abruptly short-pointed. Linum12 KB (469 words) - 18:17, 29 July 2020
- broadly or narrowly short or long-decurrent; margins coarsely serrate to subentire; apex gradually or abruptly tapered, acuminate, acute, or apiculate;14 KB (698 words) - 07:49, 30 July 2020
- bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow or reddish (at least distally), tubes shorter than campanulate throats, lobes 5, triangular (style-branches slender, appendages32 KB (1,118 words) - 23:14, 29 July 2020
- Plants loosely or densely cespitose, very short to long rhizomatous, stoloniferous. Culms red or brown at base, shorter than leaves. Leaves: basal sheaths fibrous;16 KB (801 words) - 01:21, 30 July 2020
- spike androgynous. Proximal pistillate scales with apex obtuse to acuminate or short-awned. Perigynia ascending to spreading, veined abaxially, veined9 KB (619 words) - 01:46, 30 July 2020
- appears in FNA Volume 23. Plants densely cespitose or forming loose colonies, short-rhizomatous; shoots both vegetative and flowering. Culms usually maroon,18 KB (940 words) - 02:10, 30 July 2020
- 2–1.3 mm; apex short-acute or long-acuminate; usually ecostate. Stipe leaves appressed, erect, or recurved, triangular to ovate-acuminate; base clasping;14 KB (540 words) - 07:55, 30 July 2020