Carex Longirostris Torrey, p. 118

169 Carex longirostris, Torrey

Syn. C. Sprengelii, Dew.

Sterile spikes three at the summit of a
long slender stalk, the lower often with a few
fertile flowers; fertile spikes 2 or 3 cylindrical, more
or less distant on long, filiform, at length drooping
stalks, loosely flowered; perigynia globose-ovoid,
with an abrupt long and narrow beak, a little
longer than the lanceolate scale. Culms
2 feet high; flowers in May. Shady rocks

On the Blue Mounds, Wisconsin; Illinois, &
Michigan. Extends north to the Arctic
regions and east to N. England.