Upright Sedge

Growth habit

Grass/Sedge

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Native to the Finger Lakes Region, Eastern Half of North America

Location

Peterson Oak Grove, McLean Bogs, Eames Bog, Salt Road Fen, Purvis Road Wetlands Natural Area, Ringwood Ponds

Source of plant

North Creek Nurseries

Description

Plants forming large clumps, with both long and short rhizomes, the stems arising laterally, 4-14dm, scabrous on the angles, rather lax, usually surpassing the leaves; lowest leaves reduced to bladeless sheaths, these splitting ventrally and becoming pinnately fibrillose; foliage leaves 3-6mm wide, inversely W-shaped in cross section, the sheaths shallowly concave (and often with a central mucro) at the thickened mouth; ligule acute, triangular, much longer than wide; bracts sheathless, the lowest leaf-like, shorter to slightly longer than the inflorescence, the others much smaller, pistillate spikes 2-4, up to 6cm, often approximate and usually overlapping, erect, linear-cylindric, sessile or nearly so, sometimes apically staminate; pistillate scales lanceolate to oblong, from narrower and shorter to less often as wide as and longer than the perigynia, reddish-brown, usually witha conspicuous pale midrib, blunt to acute; perigynia planaoconvex to nearly flat, ovate, 1.6-3.4mm, three-fifths as wide, tapering to a minute, straight beak, 2-ribbed, otherwise nerveless or obscurely nerved on both faces; achene lenticular, filling the lower tw-thirds of the perigynium; 2n = 68. abundant in swales and marshes, especially where seasonally flooded. Quebec and Nova Scotia to Minnesota and Manitoba, south to VA and TX.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Status

L4|S5|G5