379.
Carex
tuckermanii
Dewey, Amer. J. Sci. Arts. 49: 48, plate Ff, fig. 117. 1845 (as tuckermani).
Carex de Tuckerman
Plants cespitose; rhizomes short or inconspicuous. Culms trigonous in cross section, 40—120 cm, smooth distally. Leaves: basal sheaths reddish purple; ligules as wide to slightly longer than wide; blades dark green, flat to W-shaped, 2—5 mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences 10—35 cm; proximal bract 25—70 cm, exceeding inflorescence; proximal (1—)2—3(—4) spikes pistillate, erect or the proximal spreading or pendent, cylindric; terminal 1—3 spikes staminate. Pistillate scales narrowly ovate, 3.9—5.2 × 1.2—2.4 mm, shorter than perigynia, margins entire, apex acute, awnless. Perigynia ascending, often green or straw colored, strongly 7—12-veined, veins running to beak, broadly elliptic, 7.5—12.5 × (4—)4.5—7 mm, apex contracted; beak 2.4—4.8 mm, smooth, bidentate, teeth straight, 0.7—1.9 mm. Stigmas 3. Achenes brown, trigonous, asymmetric, deeply indented on 1 face, smooth.
Fruiting Jun—Aug. Deciduous swamp forests, thickets, often along streams or pond shores, wet meadows; 0—500 m; N.B., Ont., Que.; Conn., Ind., Maine, Md., Mich., Minn., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Vt., Wis.
