Question: These seeds were on long stalks (50+ cm) sticking up from a mass of lots of different plants. Are they …
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These seeds were on long stalks (50+ cm) sticking up from a mass of lots of different plants. Are they recognizable without the base of the plant? There's a bug near the end of the cluster. Lincoln, Massachusetts, edge of a trail in a partly sunny place near a pond but well above water level.
Answer
Dear jfc, you have photographed a member of the genus Carex in the section Cyperoideae (what many call "ovales"). Without a slightly higher resolution image, it is hard for me to be sure, but it does look like Carex scoparia (broom sedge), a common species found throughout the northeast.
