Question: Hi. Saw this at McDowell Dam, alongside a road that runs along the reservoir, in Peterborough NH, yesterday, and am …
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Hi. Saw this at McDowell Dam, alongside a road that runs along the reservoir, in Peterborough NH, yesterday, and am stumped. Looks like a sedge, but there are so many sedges! Was growing in an area that's damp and floods every winter. Thanks for looking at it fore me.
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Dear rayban19, good afternoon. Because the plant is young (for a sedge) and I don't have images of a few items I need (such as the ligule, where the leaf blade meets the leaf sheath), I can only narrow this down to two likely identifications: Carex lacustris (lake-side sedge) or Carex utriculata (swollen-beaked sedge). These are two, common, native sedges in New England.
