Carex geyeri

Family: Cyperaceae
Common Name: Geyer's sedge
Symbol: CAGE2
Description: Plants not cespitose, long-rhizomatous. Culms 13-49 cm, triangular, scabrous distally. Leaves: basal sheaths reddish brown to dark brown; blades plane, 1.1-3.5 mm wide, equaling or exceeding culms. Spike with staminate portion separated from pistillate portion by short but conspicuous internode, with pistillate portion unbranched, 7.5-26.5 1.3-2.2 mm. Pistillate scales brown, chartaceous, apex cuspidate to short-awned. Staminate scales reddish brown, apex cuspidate to short-awned. Anthers 2.2-6.2 mm. Perigynia 1-3, greenish yellow to brown, with 2 marginal veins, otherwise veinless, 5-6.8(-8.4) 1.8-2.8 mm. Fruiting late Apr-late Aug. Dry montane and subalpine grasslands, burns, and open spruce, fir, or pine woods; 800-3300 m; Alta., B.C.; Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Pa., Utah, Wash., Wyo. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.