Included in this key are only those species found in the area surveyed at Buttermilk Falls State Park.

 

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Vascular Plants of the Gorge at
Buttermilk Falls State Park (Ithaca, NY)

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Graminoids (Carex)
     
 
Stems of the plant are triangular in cross-section.
Inflorescences are not subtended by 3 very long
leaf-like bracts. Flowers are
unisexual, concealed
in part within a sac-like
bract called a perigynum.
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The inflorescence is mostly
or entirely
interrupted, with
evident gaps between
spikes.

   
The inflorescence is only
slightly uninterrupted,
located mostly at the
top of the stem. Gaps,
between spikes, if any,
are relatively short.
   

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