Carex Grisea Wahlenberg, p. 62

114 Carex grisea, Wahlenberg.

Syn. C. laxiflora Schk (not of Lam)

Sterile spike solitary, sessile; fertile spikes
3 to 5 oblong, loosely flowered, remote, and the
lowest distant, perigynia ovoid-oblong, obscurely
nerved, rather longer than the ovate awned
scale; achenium obovate, triquetrious,
pitted under a lens; bracts leafy much
exceeding the culm.

Plate X fig 4 a fertile spike and
bract; b perigynium & scale; c section of the
perigynium; d scale; e achenium; f section
of the same.

Wisconsin, Illinois, Southern Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, and about Lake Superior.
Extends from Louisiana to the arctic regions