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.
(Click one of the pictures below that corresponds to your choice.)
   
Pennsylvania sedge
(Carex pensylvanica)
   
Broad-leaved sedge
(Carex platyphylla)
   
Broom sedge
(Carex scoparia)
   

Loose-flowered sedge
(Carex laxiflora)

   

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