large, yellowish green, to 80 cm, often very robust, densely hairy, hairs patent, soft. Stems densely spreading-hairy (to inflorescences). Leaves: stipules
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Plants in loose to compact tufts, 5–30 mm. Stems radiculose. Leaves erect-patent, lanceolate, ending in a long acumen, entire or with a few teeth at tips;
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flesh usually hard, sometimes mellow; sepals erose or persistent, sessile, patent to reflexed, nonaccrescent; pyrenes 3–5. c, e North America Species 8 (8
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2-pinnate; paraphyllia and pseudoparaphyllia present. Leaves erect to erect-patent when dry, spreading when moist; margins recurved at base, plane at apex;
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concave, rarely flat, distal subula keeled to tubulose, erect-appressed, erect-patent or spreading, straight, weakly curled, crispate or cirrate when dry, generally
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suborbicular, 6–10 (–12) mm diam., glabrous or sparsely pilose; sepals reflexed or patent-recurved; pyrenes 3–5, sides plane to pitted. w, c North America Species
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pseudoparaphyllia acute; axillary hairs of 3 or 4 cells. Stem-leaves erect, patent, or rigidly spreading, imbricate-appressed, ovate, ovate-triangular, or
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diam., glabrous or hairy; flesh ± hard to mealy; sepals usually on collar, patent to reflexed, nonaccrescent; pyrenes 2–5. c, e United States Species 12 (12
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sheath black, leaflike, longest 1–12 cm. Spikelets (1–) 2–10, in subumbels, patent or pendent, ovoid, 10–20 mm in flower, 20–50 mm in fruit; peduncles 5–60
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tepal horizontal, 28–33 × 7–9 mm, much exceeding others; lateral tepals patent or recurved, 12–15 × 4–7 mm; lower median tepal slightly smaller than laterals;
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radicles hyaline to reddish, smooth, with oblique tangential walls. Leaves patent, erect-spreading when dry, spreading when moist, keeled or shallowly carinate;
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yellowish to grayish green mats. Stems radiculose at base. Leaves erect-patent when dry, lanceolate, gradually contracted to a short, canaliculate apex;
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loosely appressed, erect, often spirally twisted around stem when dry, erect-patent when moist, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-ligulate, sometimes rugose; margins
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2–) 1–3 (–4) cm, often branched; rhizoids at base, papillose. Leaves erect-patent, contorted or somewhat crisped, rarely straight when dry, lanceolate, ovatelanceolate
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(at least base and apex); flesh mealy; sepals ± retained, erect or erect-patent to broadly spreading, rarely incurved, ± accrescent; pyrenes (3–) 5. North
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red, suborbicular, 10 mm diam., glabrous; flesh soft when mature; sepals patent-reflexed; pyrenes 3–5, dorsally grooved, sides plane. Generated Map Legacy
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reddish-brown or purple. Stems (0.2–) 1–3 (–4) cm. Leaves crowded, erect-patent to contorted or somewhat crisped, rarely straight when dry, lanceolate,
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surfaces sparsely to densely hispid, rarely coriaceous or glaucous, trichomes patent, rarely appressed. Cauline leaves: blade similar to basal, (lobes fewer
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(corymbose), greatly elongated in fruit. Fruiting pedicels usually ascending to patent [reflexed], rarely erect, slender. Flowers: sepals erect, connivent, obtuse
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Spikelets usually appressed to ascending, sometimes strongly divergent or patent, with 1-11 florets, the lowest florets usually functional, sterile and glumelike
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