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Beaked Spikerush is a grasslike perennial with stems that are 4-10 dm long, 1-2 mm wide, and clustered on a rootstock. All leaves occur on the lower stems and are reduced to sheathing scales, making the plants appear leafless. Longer stems arch over and root at the tips, forming new plants. The flowers are composed of ca. 6 bristles subtended by a blunt, lance-shaped, brownish scale that is 3-5 ...

Beaked Sedge is a perennial, grass-like plant with a single or several round stems, 5-12 dm tall, which arise from extensive, creeping rhizomes. The leaves are 1-4 mm wide and have dense, microscopic bumps on the upper surface and inrolled margins; they are covered with a whitish, waxy coating that rubs off. Flowers are clustered in cylindical spikes which are 2-10 cm long and arise on erect to ...

Tufted Club-rush is a perennial, grass-like plant with tufted, stems that are 1-4 dm tall and arising from short rhizomes. The leaves are clustered near the base and are reduced to scales or short blades. Several flowers are spirally arranged in a single, short, spike-like, terminal cluster, or spikelet, that is 4-6 mm long and subtended by a long-tipped scale. Each flower consists of a single s...