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Carex utriculata ~ beaked sedge

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Characteristics:

• OBL

• Michigan C Value: 5

• also known as Carex rostrata

• usually more robust than C. vesicaria

• lacks reflexed perigynia

• perigynia up to 150 per spikelet

• perigynia shiny, few–nerved, inflated

• perigynia pale yellow to golden brown, ovoid, up to 7mm long

• spongy–based culms

• smooth or only slightly scabrous culms

• culms up to 1.2m tall

• large seedhead looks vaguely similar to a tiny, bare "ear of corn" with beaks on the seeds

• flowers from May through early June

• native