Perennial with 1–several thickened roots, conspicuously brown-woolly at the crown; lvs thick and fleshy, elliptic, 5–15 cm, half as wide, acute, tapering to the margined petiole; lateral veins all descending into the petiole; scapes 1–3 dm, glabrous or nearly so; spikes slender, 5–20 cm, the axis exposed; bracts and sep about equal, nearly flat, rounded or obtuse, with narrow scarious margins; cor-lobes 1–1.5 mm, spreading or reflexed; fr ovoid, rounded above, 3–4 mm, circumscissile just below the middle; seeds 2–4, 2–2.7 mm; 2n=24. Salt marshes along the coast, Que. to N.S.; alkaline soil m the interior, Minn. and Io. to Mack., Yukon, and Wash., s. to Nebr., Colo., and Calif.
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