Question: A sedge growing between unpaved road and strip of woods, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Question
A sedge growing between unpaved road and strip of woods, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Answer
Dear jfc, the plant in the photograph looks like Carex scoparia (broom sedge). This is a common member of the section Cyperoideae (including section Ovales), as marked by the conspicuously flattened and wing-margined perigynia. This species will have acuminate to shortly awn-tipped carpellate scales that do not extend to the apex of the perigynia they subtend.
