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Tapered Rush is a tufted, grass-like perennial with erect stems that are 3-8 dm high and fibrous roots. Leaf blades septate: they are are tubular and divided internally into cross-sections. The leaf sheaths surround the stem and have a pair of membranous appendages, or auricles, on either side where the blade is attached. Flowers are borne in 5-20 hemispheric heads on the ends of spreading stalk...