Perennial; culms solitary or in small tufts, 1–5 dm; lvs not densely crowded at base, the short blades erect, flat, 2–5 mm wide; ligule 1–3 mm; infl loose, 4–10 cm, its lowest branches usually paired; glumes purplish with brownish-scarious margins, equal, acuminate, 4.3–6.1 mm, twice as long as and generally concealing the lemmas, these obtuse or erose-truncate, minutely short-hairy above, long-hairy near the base; awn inserted near the middle, usually slightly bent, about equaling the glumes; anthers oval or oblong, 0.4–0.8 mm; 2n=14. Cold bogs and meadows; circumboreal, s. to the higher mts. of N.H. and N.Y., and to Colo. (Vahlodea a.)
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