353.
Carex
hirtifolia
Mackenzie, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club. 37: 244. 1910.
Carex à feuilles poilues
Carex pubescens Muhlenberg ex Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4(1): 281. 1805, not Poiret 1789
Culms 25—60 cm, scabrous distally, pilose. Leaf blades to 4—8 mm wide. Spikes: lateral spikes in distal 1/2 of stem, 5—17(—22) × 4—6 mm; terminal spikes 8—20 × 1.8—3 mm. Pistillate scales 3-veined, obovate-circular, 3—5 × 1.2—2.5 mm, apex acuminate, proximal scale almost as long as perigynia, with awn 0.5—2 mm. Perigynia 3.5—5 × 1.5—1.8 mm. Achenes sessile, 2.5—2.8 × 1.2—1.5 mm. 2n = 50.
Fruiting late spring—early summer. Thickets, lowland forests, forested slopes; 0—1000 m; N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Conn., Del., D.C., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., N.H., N.J., Ohio, Pa., R.I., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.
