Carex Meadii Dewey, p. 56

108 Carex Meadii, Dewey

Sterile spike solitary, long peduncled, club-shaped;
fertile spikes two, oblong, round, rather loosely
flowered, pedunculate, or the upper nearly sessile, with leafy sheathing bracts, shorter than the culm;
perigynia ovate, becoming obovate by the growth of
the achenium, obtuse, nerved, with a very
short recurved beak; longer than the ovate
bract acute or acuminate scale; achenium
triquetrous, flattened at top, contracted towards the
base, distinctly clotted under a lens. Culms
8 to 16 inches high, flowers in May.
Grows on prairies and in oak openings.

Milwaukee to La Crosse in Wisconsin;
Illinois, Ohio, & Michigan. Extends
southward to N. Orleans.

Very near, if not identical with C. panicea
Linnaeus, a native of Europe.