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Carex sprengelii ~ long beaked sedge ~ Sprengels sedge

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Characteristics:

FAC
Michigan C Value: 5
perigynium has very long bidentate beak (usually at least as long as body)
pistillate spikelets are usually pendulous
1–3 staminate spikelets
flowers in May
culms up to 1m long
recognized in vegetative phase by the dense brown fibers covering the creeping, short rhizome
moist woods, floodplains, river banks
native

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