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Alpine-nerved Sedge is a perennial, grass-like plant with stems, 2-8 dm long, that are clustered on short to elongate rootstocks. The lowest leaves are reduced to scales. Leaves with flat blades, 3-4 mm wide, are crowded just above these scales. Leaf sheaths surrounding the stem just below point of attachment on the side opposite the blade are pale with distinct crossribs. Flowers occur in globo...

Bristly Sedge is a coarse, perennial, grasslike plant with clustered stems, 5-10 dm high, which arise from a short rhizome. The long, glabrous leaves are flat and 4-11 mm wide. Flowers are clustered in cylindical spikes, 2-7 cm long, which arise from the axils of the smaller upper leaves (bracts). The lowest bract leaf is much longer than the inflorescence. Male flowers are borne in a narrow spi...