Luzula spicata (L.) DC.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Juncaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Densely cespitose, 1–3 dm; basal lvs numerous; cauline lvs 2 or 3, narrowly linear; fls in small, dense, sessile glomerules, forming a nodding spike 1–3 cm; bracts subtending the fls acuminate, red-brown below, scarious above, often ciliate; tep 2–2.5 mm, terminating in a slender fragile bristle; fr purple-brown, about equaling the tep; seeds ellipsoid, 1–1.2 mm, with a narrow raphe and a very short, rounded, basal appendage; 2n=12, 14, 18, 24. Arctic and alpine meadows, ledges, and slopes; circumboreal, s. to the high mts. of N.Y. and N. Engl.