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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Carex L.
Bristle
absent from female flower or short and not exserted
Carex
consider the other alternative
Style
2-fid
,
nut
not
trigonous
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Lowermost spikes, or collection of spikes, on each
culm
, subtended by a leafy
bract
as long as or longer than the
spike
consider the other alternative
Spikes oblong, more than 10 mm long, brownish to blackish-green
choose this alternative
reject this alternative
Lower spikes
pedicellate
, drooping to
ascending
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reject this alternative
Lower spikes
sessile
to subsessile, erect to spreading