GLOBE FLAT-SEDGE
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Cyperus echinatus (L. ) Alph. Wood
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| [=Cyperus ovularis (Michx. ) Torr.] |
| Woodson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 10-36 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September |
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| Culms: | | Sharply 3-sided, smooth. | | Leaves: | | Blades shorter than to about equaling culm, 6 to 26 inches long, 1/8 to 2/5 inch wide. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, 3-12, dense, globose, 1/5 to 4/5 inch diam., terminating unequal peduncles; subtending bracts 4-7, leaf-like, the longer much exceeding the inflorescence. | | Spikelets: | | 60-110+, narrowly linear, 1/8 to 2/5 inch long, radiating in all directions from a central point, 2-4-flowered, spikelet bases overlapping, tips pointed; scales 3-5, yellowish brown, midrib green, 7-11-nerved, narrowly oblong-elliiptic ca. 1/6 inch; stamens 3; style 3-cleft. | | Fruits: | | Achenes brown, narrowly oblong, .07 to .09 inch long, to .002 inch wide, bluntly 3-angled, shiny. | | Habitat: | | Openings of dry, upland wooded areas, roadside ditches, dry, open disturbed areas, usually in rocky or sandy soils. | | Distribution: | | South 1/2 of the east 1/3 of Kansas. | | Origin: | | Native |
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