Visual glossary -- About sedges -- Quick guides to the sedge genera -- Sedge genera compared -- Achenes compared -- Spikelets compared -- One spikelet per stem -- Flower cluster with a single erect bract -- Spikelets flattened, their scales in 2 rows -- Some spikelets lateral, from leaves or bracts along the sides of the stem -- Spikelets in open spikes -- Spikelets in a single dense cluster at the tip of the stem -- Spikelets in open radiating clusters from the tip, or tip and sides, of stem -- Spikelets in an open cluster at the tip of the stem but not the sides -- Quick guides to carex -- About carex -- The sections of carex -- Carex sections group 1 -- Carex sections group 2 -- Carex sections group 3 -- Carex perigynia compared -- Carex perigynia by shape -- Carex with one spikelet per stem -- Carex with flattened perigynia and short spikelets without stalks -- Carex with flattened perigynia and longer spikelets, often stalked -- Carex with leaves or sheaths furry -- Carex with furry perigynia -- Carex with dark red, brown, or black scales on the female spikelets -- Carex with stalked spikelets that arch or dangle -- Carex with the spikelets clustered in a dense terminal head or spike -- Carex with the terminal spikelet female at the tip and male at the base, lower spikelets all female -- Carex with several all-male spikelets -- Carex with large, cylindrical or globular spikelets -- Carex with several small cylindrical spikelets which are either stalked or unisexual -- Systematic sections -- Bolboschoenus -- Bulbostylis -- Carex -- Cladium -- Cyperus -- Dulichium -- Eleocharis -- Eriophorum -- Fimbristylis -- Rhynchospora -- Schoenoplectus -- Scirpus -- Scleria -- Trichophorum -- Sources and photography -- Older names -- Gallery.
Summary:
"A visual reference for identification of the approximately 236 sedges of the Northern Forest Region, with quick guides, systematic sections, annotations, and notes. Accompanying folding charts for field use sold separately"-- Provided by publisher.
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