Carex leavenworthii Dewey
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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
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Densely cespitose, the stems 2–5 dm, conspicuously exceeding the lvs, or the lvs more elongate in moist ground or shade; lvs 1–3 mm wide; infl, spikes, and pistillate scales as in the typical var. of no. 19 [Carex cephalophora Willd]; perigynia greenish-stramineous, spreading, broadly ovate, planoconvex, 2.5–3.3 mm, three-fifths to three-fourths as wide above the broadly rounded, truncate, or even subcordate base, inconspicuously rough-margined or smooth distally, the sharply bidentate beak a fourth as long as the body. Dry open ground or dry woods; N.Y. and N.J. to Fla. and Tex., thence n. to Io., s. Mich., and sw. Ont.