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Vigorously colonial by creeping rhizomes, the slender stems 4–8 dm, strongly aphyllopodic; main lvs 3–5 mm wide; staminate spikes 1–3, the terminal one usually 2–5 cm, the lateral much shorter; pistillate spike 1 and subterminal or 2–3 and ± remote, erect, short-cylindric, 1.5–2.5 cm, densely fld, sessile or nearly so; lowest bract shorter than the stem, 2–5 cm; pistillate scales lance-ovate, to as long as the perigynia, acute or acuminate, with purple sides and hyaline margins; perigynia ovoid, 2.8–4.4 mm, densely hairy, abruptly tapering into the beak; beak a third as long as the body, marked with purple on the back, hyaline-tipped, eventually split; achene concavely trigonous. Woods; s. Me. to se. Va.
