Densely tufted, 2–8 dm, purplish at base; lvs 2–4 mm wide, usually surpassing the stems; sheaths glabrous; staminate spike 1–3 cm, on a peduncle ca as long as the uppermost pistillate spike; bracts glabrous or rarely minutely granular-puberulent; pistillate spikes 2–4, 0.5–2 cm, very loosely fld; pistillate scales ovate, 3–6 mm, all or at least the lower with an awn longer than the body and usually longer than the perigynia; perigynia 7–12, alternately arranged, fusiform or slenderly ellipsoid, 3.5–5.4 mm, nearly straight, tapering almost equally to both ends, finely many-nerved; achene trigonous, filling the perigynium, with a minute straight beak. Moist rich woods; Mass., Vt., s. Que., and Ont. to Minn., s. to Fla. and Tex.
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