Oval-Headed Sedge

Scientific Name:   Carex cephalophora


Found primarily in dry, deciduous woods and on rocky slopes. Terminal spike has staminate (male) flowers at the tip and pistillate (female) flowers at the base (androgynous), with the lateral spikes usually also androgynous. Tight leaf sheaths are concave and slightly thickened at the tip.

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Oval-Headed Sedge


Genus species: Carex cephalophora
Common Name: Oval-Headed Sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae  
Annual or perennial herbs, often with triangular stems (culms), the pith usually present; leaves alternate, the blades simple, grasslike (linear with parallel venation), with a tubular sheath usually closed at the apex; flowers (florets) bisexual or unisexual, very small, in spikelets; fruit an achene or nutlet, often triangular or lenticular.
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Sedge
Identified by:J.D. Mancini
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