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Rhizomatous and sometimes also tufted, 5–15 cm; lvs mostly basal, often recurved-spreading, 5–10 cm × 1–3 mm; staminate spike terminal, solitary, only 3–7 mm; anthers1–1.5 mm; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, approximate, sessile or short-peduncled, 4–8 mm; bract subtending the lowest spike 1 cm or less, with an expanded, usually sheathing base 2–5 mm and an awn-tip of similar or lesser length; pistillate scales blunt, brown with hyaline margins, distinctly shorter than the perigynia, often only half as long; perigynia 5–12, 2–3(–3.5) mm, puberulent, plump, 2-ribbed, abruptly contracted to the very short beak less than 0.5 mm; basal spines none; achene rounded-trigonous; 2n=54. Coniferous woods; Nf. to Yukon, s. to n. Mich., n. Wis., S.D., Colo., and Oreg.
