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- shallow, lobe apex usually subacute to obtuse, margins serrate except proximally, veins 6–8 per side, impressed, apex acute to subacute, rarely obtuse, abaxial10 KB (939 words) - 14:37, 30 July 2020
- (–10) mm, base cuneate, margins sometimes slightly constricted, apex usually subacute or rounded, rarely subemarginate; locule with distinct midvein, lateral-veins7 KB (756 words) - 12:33, 30 July 2020
- persistent, (4–) 5; petals persistent, (4–) 5; stamens persistent, (5–) 10–80, usually in continuous or interrupted ring, sometimes in 5 barely discernable fascicles10 KB (391 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- 3–12 mm, papery to membranous, margins plane, apex usually subacute, basal veins (3–) 5, midrib usually with 1–2 pairs of branches. Inflorescences laxly7 KB (573 words) - 11:16, 30 July 2020
- slightly rounded, lobes 1 or 2 per side distally, short, lobe apex usually subacute, margins obscurely crenate, sometimes crenate-serrate in distal 1/29 KB (990 words) - 13:46, 30 July 2020
- per side, obscure, max LII 10%, lobe apex usually obtuse, margins serrate, teeth 0.5 mm, apex usually subacute, adaxial surface matte, short-pubescent young4 KB (787 words) - 14:40, 30 July 2020
- Acetosa and Acetosella), occasionally polygamomonoecious, with taproots and usually short caudex, or sometimes rhizomatous and/or stoloniferous. Stems erect41 KB (1,085 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- plump, usually apiculate to mucronate, sometimes minutely so, or subacute to (rarely) acute; upper lemmas striate, chartaceous-indurate, shiny, usually glabrous26 KB (1,343 words) - 04:00, 30 July 2020
- 1-year old usually golden green to tan, sometimes deep reddish-brown or gray-brown, older graying; thorns on twigs usually numerous, usually ± recurved20 KB (1,294 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2020
- (5–) 30–110 (–150) dm. Stems: trunks 1–several, ± erect to oblique, bark usually flattened-scaly, sometimes corrugated or thin-exfoliating; compound thorns28 KB (995 words) - 14:38, 30 July 2020
- 20–35 dm, sometimes clonal. Stems: twigs: new growth usually appressed-pubescent, 1-year old usually dull yellowish to greenish brown or gray-brown to light13 KB (1,160 words) - 13:44, 30 July 2020
- rhombic-elliptic, 3–6 (–8) cm, ± thin, base usually cuneate, lobes 0 or 1–4 (–9) per side, sinuses usually shallow, lobe apex usually acute, rarely obtuse, margins serrate12 KB (864 words) - 14:39, 30 July 2020
- 7) per side, ± impressed in coriaceous-leaved plants, apex usually acute, sometimes subacute or obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous or glabrate, sometimes14 KB (936 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
- corollas 8–10 mm; capsules narrowly oblong, apices truncate to retuse; usually pastures, scrub, marshy places. Euphrasia stricta 5 Inflorescences beginning17 KB (854 words) - 19:26, 29 July 2020
- new growth usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pubescent, 1-year old deep reddish-brown, older gray; thorns on twigs usually numerous, usually recurved13 KB (959 words) - 14:41, 30 July 2020
- of hairs; upper lemmas usually more or less rigid and chartaceous-indurate, usually shiny, glabrous or (rarely) pubescent, usually smooth, sometimes verrucose26 KB (1,480 words) - 04:05, 30 July 2020
- leaves 3-9; sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose, usually ciliate; ligules 0.2-1.8 mm, of hairs; blades usually 2-5 cm, sometimes with prominent white, cartilaginous4 KB (824 words) - 04:03, 30 July 2020
- 630, 631, 632. Shrubs or trees, 5–70 (–100) dm, usually main trunk dominant. Stems: trunk bark usually dark-brown to dark gray or black, sometimes ashy22 KB (1,233 words) - 13:46, 30 July 2020
- Eleocharis sect. Parvulae), terminating rhizomes or among culm bases. Culms usually spongy with incomplete transverse septa, seldom hollow with complete transverse37 KB (456 words) - 02:15, 30 July 2020
- the spikelets, often triangular, not strongly veined, usually acute or subacute; upper glumes usually slightly shorter than the lower lemmas and upper florets10 KB (1,144 words) - 04:02, 30 July 2020
- moderately frequent, straight to recurved, 1-year old usually dark reddish-brown to blackish, usually shiny, usually slender, 2.5–5 cm. Leaves: petiole length (16–)12 KB (860 words) - 14:42, 30 July 2020
- 3) per side, lobe apex acute to subacute, rarely obtuse, margins serrate in distal 3/4, veins 5–7 per side, apex subacute to obtuse, abaxial surface scabrous-pubescent11 KB (1,044 words) - 14:39, 30 July 2020
- domed panicles; branches usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pilose; bracteoles usually caducous, sometimes ± persistent, usually numerous, linear to narrowly15 KB (1,064 words) - 14:43, 30 July 2020
- apex obtuse to subacute; cauline leaves 2–3 (–5), paired or whorled, blade similar to basal leaves, 10–50 mm. Inflorescences usually subumbellate to paniculate6 KB (446 words) - 09:46, 30 July 2020
- Mentioned on page 649, 658. Shrubs, 0.5–1 m, rhizomatous. Stems 1–50, usually forming colonies. Leaves mostly or fully unfolded; petiole 1–25 mm; blade6 KB (585 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- fall phase usually forming a dense cushion. Cauline leaves 2-4; ligules membranous, ciliate; blades soft, green to yellowish, margins usually ciliate. Primary4 KB (798 words) - 04:04, 30 July 2020
- obtuse to subacute, with terminal mucro; style-branches spreading; stigmas 3. Staminate flowers: tepals 5, equal, 2–3 mm, apex obtuse to subacute; inner tepals:6 KB (492 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- at apex; apices slenderly long-acuminate to rounded, rounded-obtuse to subacute, muticous or seldom with short to long awns, deeply concave to canaliculate-concave;11 KB (701 words) - 06:52, 30 July 2020
- of North America Association Plants glabrous or nearly so. Stems erect, usually branched or occasionally ± simple, 0.4–1.5 (–2) m; branches sometimes ascending8 KB (589 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- leaves usually spreading. Primary panicles 3-12 cm, long-exserted, usually with many spikelets; branches wiry, mostly spreading or ascending, usually glabrous12 KB (1,221 words) - 04:02, 30 July 2020
- cespi¬tose. Basal rosettes usually well-differentiated; blades ovate to lanceolate. Culms 15-100 cm (rarely taller), usually thicker than 1 mm, weak and16 KB (1,305 words) - 04:02, 30 July 2020
- vegetative leaves. Seta typically solitary, smooth. Capsule cylindric, usually broadest near the base, terete, often rugose or sometimes with 4 or more9 KB (593 words) - 06:46, 30 July 2020
- naked basally; pedicels short, stiff, subappressed, prominently 3-angled, usually scabrous on the angles, widened and cuplike at the apices. Spikelets narrow6 KB (1,003 words) - 04:07, 30 July 2020
- perennial; usually rhizomatous, often cespitose, sometimes mat-forming, rarely stoloniferous. Culms 2-300 cm, erect, geniculate, or decumbent, usually herbaceous42 KB (1,621 words) - 04:38, 30 July 2020
- Carex (section Key D. Spikes 2+ per culm; at least some flowers pistillate; stigmas (2–)3(–4); achenes usually trigonous in cross section; body of perigynium pubescent to hispid, sometimes papillose, papillae longer than wide)inflorescences were usually spicate or racemose, although more complex inflorescences occurred, especially in Asia. Subgenus Indocarex usually had bisexual spikes80 KB (3,349 words) - 15:29, 15 December 2020
- craspedodromous, veins 5–7 (or 8) per side, apex acute to subacute, abaxial surface usually glabrous, veins pubescent, adaxial appressed-pubescent. Inflorescences12 KB (1,001 words) - 14:41, 30 July 2020
- side, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, abaxial surface usually glabrous except on veins, sometimes sparsely pubescent, adaxial usually appressed-pubescent11 KB (775 words) - 14:36, 30 July 2020
- cultivated by alpine/succulent plant enthusiasts. In the wild, the plants usually occur in small, isolated populations in rocky or gravelly places, especially13 KB (537 words) - 09:45, 30 July 2020
- Treatment on page 441. Plants usually densely cespitose, with caudices. Basal rosettes usually well-differentiated. Culms slender, usually purplish and puberulent;4 KB (820 words) - 04:03, 30 July 2020
- subterete or grooved adaxially, 0.5–5 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute; cauline leaves absent. Inflorescences with flowers borne singly; bracts6 KB (420 words) - 09:46, 30 July 2020
- hairs usually dense or usually absent (in subsp. groenlandica), adaxial with long hairs absent or sparse to abundant, cottony-crisped hairs usually absent10 KB (1,044 words) - 13:54, 30 July 2020
- ligules 0.5-1 mm, of hairs; blades usually erect, stiff, upper blades 1-5 mm wide, 15-60 times as long. Primary panicles usually exserted. Spikelets narrowly4 KB (841 words) - 04:05, 30 July 2020
- chamaelonche Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 438. Plants usually densely cespitose, with caudices. Basal rosettes well-differentiated; blades8 KB (1,002 words) - 04:03, 30 July 2020
- oblong-obovate, (24–) 35–48 (–67) × (12–) 20–27 (–42) mm, base rounded, apex subacute to rounded and mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous to moderately hairy8 KB (877 words) - 13:49, 30 July 2020
- (–17) mm, base cuneate to attenuate, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces pubescent, trichomes usually branched. Cauline leaves: blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate8 KB (834 words) - 12:22, 30 July 2020
- per side, sinuses extremely shallow, lobe apex subacute, margins toothed, teeth large, acute or subacute except near base, sharp or obtuse, eglandular,9 KB (725 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- side, sinuses shallow, lobe apex subacute to acute, margins regularly, sharply glandular-serrate, proximally usually stipitate-glandular, venation craspedodromous11 KB (895 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
- auriculate to subamplexicaul, margins entire or dentate, apex obtuse to subacute. Racemes 0.5–25 cm, (congested or considerably elongated). Fruiting pedicels10 KB (918 words) - 12:35, 30 July 2020
- entirely stramineous, apex rounded to subacute. Flowers: perianth bristles 6, stramineous, fairly stout to slender, usually equaling achene to slightly exceeding7 KB (780 words) - 01:30, 30 July 2020
- distally green to stramineous, usually inflated, often callose, membranous to papery, apex often redbrown, broadly obtuse to subacute, tooth sometimes present10 KB (787 words) - 01:21, 30 July 2020
- stramineous), distally red or stramineous or green, not callose, membranous, apex usually pale-red, broadly obtuse to narrowly acuminate, tooth absent. Spikelets12 KB (1,208 words) - 01:22, 30 July 2020
- serrulate, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces glabrous or slightly pilose; 3-veined from base, often only midvein conspicuous. Cyathia usually in small cymose clusters10 KB (726 words) - 18:24, 29 July 2020
- to ovate-oblong, 2–9 (–12) mm, margins serrate, teeth 1–3 pairs, apices subacute to aristate. Inflorescences beginning at node (5–) 7–9 (–11); bracts green6 KB (557 words) - 19:26, 29 July 2020
- Inflorescences: floral bracts scarious, the proximal often foliaceous, distal usually reduced, lanceolate, apex acuminate. Flowers ascending, loosely open orbs5 KB (510 words) - 05:27, 30 July 2020
- (0–) 3–8 (–12) teeth in distalmost cm, largest teeth less than 1 mm, apex subacute to rounded and mucronate, abaxial surface densely (moderately) hairy by8 KB (774 words) - 13:48, 30 July 2020
- racemose, with 2–6 spikes; proximal nonbasal bracts bladeless or blade usually less than 2 mm, purple-tinged, sheathing; lateral spikes pistillate or androgynous8 KB (546 words) - 01:23, 30 July 2020
- sinuses usually shallow, sometimes deep, lobe apex obtuse to angled, margins crenate to finely, sharply serrate, veins 3 or 4 per side, apex subacute to obtuse10 KB (964 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
- whitish or tinged with red, usually branched distally, sometimes proximally, to nearly simple, 0.2–1 m. Leaves: petiole usually longer than or ± equaling7 KB (495 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- Inflorescences terminal, drooping or nodding, usually red, purple, or white, less commonly green, silvery green, or yellow, usually much-branched at base, leafless at9 KB (720 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants usually simple proximally, 10–30 (–40) cm, portion proximal to inflorescence (6–)6 KB (667 words) - 19:25, 29 July 2020
- of North America Association Biennials or perennials; (caudex branched); usually densely hirsute (at least basally), rarely glabrescent, trichomes simple11 KB (1,114 words) - 12:07, 30 July 2020
- capsule, ape× subacute to acute; corolla tinged bluish, distally violet to magenta, banner purple-dotted near base, 11–15 mm, banner usually sparsely hairy6 KB (533 words) - 19:04, 29 July 2020
- green, thinly papery to thickly membranous, apex usually redbrown, subtruncate to obtuse or subacute, callose, tooth often present on most or all culms9 KB (749 words) - 01:25, 30 July 2020
- or 6 per side, apex subacute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely hairy young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 8–15-flowered; branches usually glabrous; bracteoles8 KB (876 words) - 14:38, 30 July 2020
- auricles absent; ligules membranous, scabridulous dorsally, truncate to subacute, entire to lacerate; blades flat or involute. Inflorescences panicles,7 KB (836 words) - 03:33, 30 July 2020
- with alternating lines of eglandular hairs; small axillary tufts of leaves usually absent. Leaves not marcescent; blade 10–25 (–40) × 3–8 (–12) mm, densely10 KB (753 words) - 10:17, 30 July 2020
- Flora of North America Association Stems erect, branched, stout to robust, usually 1.5–3 m (occasionally to 9 m!) × 30 cm. Leaves: petiole 1/3–2/3 length of7 KB (567 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- lines near base, wings whitish to rose-purple, keel usually with darker red tip, 10–20 mm, usually glabrous; tube hairy inside, as wide as long, saccate7 KB (610 words) - 19:04, 29 July 2020
- margins usually glandular-toothed, sometimes eglandular-toothed or rarely ± entire, apex usually truncate, sometimes rounded, obtuse, subacute, or apiculate;10 KB (692 words) - 09:46, 30 July 2020
- ciliate. Leaves: petiole 2–4 mm; blade 12–25 × 6–13 mm, base cuneate, apex subacute to obtuse. Inflorescences from near apex of stem, few to several-flowered8 KB (658 words) - 05:29, 30 July 2020
- red, thinly papery to membranous, apex usually redbrown, obtuse to subacute, often callose, tooth to 0.5 mm usually present on some culms. Spikelets ovoid12 KB (1,095 words) - 01:27, 30 July 2020
- densely spreading-hairy (to inflorescences). Leaves: stipules translucent, usually pale-pink proximally, lobes turning brownish; blade orbiculate or reniform-orbiculate6 KB (560 words) - 14:13, 30 July 2020
- 2-years old dark reddish and gray, mid brown, or gray; thorns on twigs usually numerous, ± straight to recurved, 1-year old shiny, dark redbrown, deep11 KB (492 words) - 13:47, 30 July 2020
- perennial, forming dense clumps, not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. Rhizomes usually present, caudexlike, ascending, 1 mm thick, hidden by crowded culms; internodes10 KB (778 words) - 01:28, 30 July 2020
- suborbiculate, 6–40 × 4–30 mm, base rounded to cordate, apex rounded; cauline usually on proximal 1/2 of stem, rarely on distal 1/2. Flowers: sepals spreading8 KB (877 words) - 18:29, 29 July 2020
- 4–20 (–30) × 3–5 mm, middle internodes (0.5–) 0.7–1.5 mm; terminal spike usually staminate, occasionally gynecandrous, sessile or short-pedunculate, 3–107 KB (602 words) - 02:06, 30 July 2020
- blade length; blade grayish, cordate-orbiculate, usually palmately 3–5-lobed, usually 7–9 cm, lobes subacute to obtuse, margins crenate, apex acute, surfaces7 KB (559 words) - 11:28, 30 July 2020
- half-widths; incisions usually absent or relatively short, sometimes relatively long; teeth slightly connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex subacute or almost digitate5 KB (498 words) - 14:12, 30 July 2020
- to oblong, flat, margins papery-transparent, apices rounded or obtuse to subacute. Receptacles flat to weakly convex, smooth, paleate (paleae slender, bristlelike)6 KB (477 words) - 20:19, 29 July 2020
- appressed-hairy proximally, glabrous distally. Leaves: stipules translucent, usually suffused with red proximally, translucent to pale green distally, lobes6 KB (562 words) - 14:11, 30 July 2020
- doubly serrate or dentate, sometimes ciliate, apex subacute, 3 (–5) -veined from base, surfaces usually stellate-puberulent, sometimes glabrescent. Cymes8 KB (479 words) - 11:22, 30 July 2020
- base cuneate, margins entire, plane or slightly undulate, apex obtuse to subacute, with prominent mucro. Inflorescences axillary clusters borne from bases6 KB (490 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- Flora of North America Association Shrubs, usually erect to suberect, rarely decumbent and rooting, usually unbranched, rarely sparsely branched distally7 KB (565 words) - 11:15, 30 July 2020
- 6) mm thick, weak, erect or reclining; nodes usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely bearded; internodes usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely pubescent;9 KB (1,069 words) - 04:03, 30 July 2020
- glandular-serrate, proximal bracteoles usually stipitate-glandular, venation craspedodromous, veins 5–7 per side, apex acute to subacute, glossy, abaxial surface hairy10 KB (873 words) - 13:45, 30 July 2020
- epigeous soboles. Stems ascending to erect, clumped, terete, 10–45 cm, usually simple, rarely branched proximally, subglabrous proximal to inflorescence12 KB (1,029 words) - 21:02, 7 June 2022
- obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 2/3 of stem, usually lax and interrupted, narrowly or broadly paniculate, branches usually forming9 KB (1,013 words) - 10:06, 30 July 2020
- obtuse to subacute, or shallowly emarginate, with terminal mucro. Inflorescences terminal and axillary in distal part of plant, erect, usually reddish green7 KB (546 words) - 09:41, 30 July 2020
- lobes, margins entire, flat, apex obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 2/3 of stem, usually lax and interrupted, narrowly paniculate7 KB (807 words) - 10:05, 30 July 2020
- flattened, 4–15 cm, margins entire, apex obtuse to subacute; cauline leaves absent. Inflorescences usually with flowers borne singly, rarely 2–3-flowered in8 KB (600 words) - 09:45, 30 July 2020
- × 2–10 (–20) mm (smaller distally), base attenuate to cuneate, margins usually pinnatisect to sinuate or dentate, rarely entire or subentire. Fruiting8 KB (774 words) - 12:07, 30 July 2020
- slightly revolute, apex rounded to subacute, abaxial surface glabrous or pilose to villous, adaxial surface usually glabrous, rarely villous; venation9 KB (690 words) - 18:14, 29 July 2020
- FNA Volume 12. Treatment on page 393. Mentioned on page 379, 392. Herbs, usually annual, rarely perennial, 5–40 cm, glabrous except hirsutulous near base8 KB (580 words) - 18:31, 29 July 2020
- veins 3 per side (extending to sinuses and lobes), apex subacute to acute, surfaces usually glabrous, marginal and scattered abaxial hairs, adaxial midvein7 KB (780 words) - 14:35, 30 July 2020
- up to 10 cm long, prostrate to ascending, irregularly sparsely branched, usually radiculose at base. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, (2.8–) 3.2–48 KB (1,011 words) - 06:52, 30 July 2020
- obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 2/3 of stem or more, usually lax and interrupted, broadly paniculate, branches usually divaricately9 KB (904 words) - 10:07, 30 July 2020
- plants produce white or pink corollas. The frequency of such plants is usually very low in most species. The frequency of such plants in Collinsia heterophylla16 KB (737 words) - 19:04, 29 July 2020
- apex acute or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying distal 1/2 of stem, normally dense, narrowly to broadly paniculate, branches usually straight or8 KB (910 words) - 10:06, 30 July 2020
- acute, very rarely subacute, straight, teeth 2–3 (–4), normally at each side of margins, subulate-filiform, bristlelike, 1–3.5 mm, usually 1.5–2 times as long9 KB (931 words) - 10:07, 30 July 2020
- portoricense Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 441. Plants usually densely cespitose. Basal rosettes well-differenti¬ated; blades 1.5-6 cm9 KB (1,045 words) - 04:04, 30 July 2020