Lachnocaulon digynum

Herbs, perennial, densely cespitose, forming rosettes, 5–15 cm. Leaves linear or linear-triangular, mostly 0.5–2 cm, apex narrowly acute to acute, rarely blunt. Inflorescences: scape sheaths longer than or at least rising above leaves; scapes linear to filiform, distally 0.3–0.4 mm wide, glabrous; mature heads gray or gray-brown, hemispheric, usually globose by seeding time, 2–3.5 mm wide; receptacle densely pilose; involucral-bracts soon reflexed, brown, ovate to triangular, 0.5–1 mm, apex acute, surfaces abaxially pilose; receptacular-bracts brown, mostly narrowly obovate-cuneate or spatulate, concave, 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxially pilose distally, hairs translucent, club-shaped. Staminate flowers: sepals 3, deep brown, spatulate, 1 mm, apex obtuse, distally pilose, hairs translucent; androphore pale, claviform, as long as sepals; stamens 2, appendages 2. Pistillate flowers: sepals 2, pale, broadly spatulate to narrowly oblong-obovate, concave, oblique, keeled, 1 mm, apex obtuse, apex ciliate, abaxially pilose distally, hairs translucent; gynoecium 2-carpellate; styles apically dilated, apex 2-cleft, appendages 2, deeply 2-cleft. Seeds brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.5 mm, apex apiculate, longitudinal ribs fine, pale, transverse striae fine, indistinct.

Phenology: Flowering summer–fall.
Habitat: Moist to wet sandy peats of "slick" seeps, bogs, ditchbanks, streambanks and low places in pine savanna
Elevation: 0–100 m

Ala., Fla., La., Miss., Tex.

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Lower Taxa