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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...

Slender Cottongrass is a grass-like perennial with single erect stems that are 2-6 dm high and which arise from slender rhizomes. The long basal and stem leaves are only 1-2 mm wide and deeply channeled or triangular in cross-section except near the stem. The uppermost leaf has a blade that is shorter than the sheathing portion surrounding the stem. Flowers are borne in 2-5, stalked, head-like s...