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Awned sedge is a loosely tufted grass-like perennial that grows in patches. There are two kinds of stems on the plants. One type has flowers and fruits (reproductive stems) and the other lacks these structures (vegetative stems). Reproductive stems are less common than the vegetative stems and are often lacking. Reproductive stems are 35-125 cm tall. Leaves are 3-10 mm wide, usually hairy, and ...

Poor Sedge forms small clusters on short or long rhizomes and has flowering stems up to 40 cm tall that are conspicuously clothed at the base with the dried leaves from the previous year. The leaves are mostly flat, 2-4 mm wide, and confined to the lower half of the stem. The inflorescence consists of a narrow terminal spike of male flowers and usually 2-3 mainly female spikes with fruits, the l...