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Ebony spleenwort
Kansas Wildflowers — Shaded moist areas, woods, on rocks or wooded sandy banks and slopes, thickets, rocky ledges, hillsides; gravelly, slightly acidic, well-drained soils. Drought tolerant. Not aggressive. Ebony spleenwort is the only North American fern occurring ...More…
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Woolly sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, stiff, strongly triangular, usually rough on angles, purplish-red at base. Flat, to 1/5 inch wide, prominent mid-vein, rough near tip, margins rolled under near tip. Spikes, unisexual; upper 1-3 spikes staminate, erect, long-stalked; ...More…
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Woodland sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Strongly triangular, pale green, nearly glabrous, bases brownish. Blades to 3/5 inch wide, pale green, glabrous, sometimes slightly waxy; margins rough. Spikes, usually unisexual; terminal spike staminate, 1/5 to 4/5 inch long, sessile or ...More…
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Wood rush inflorescence
Kansas Wildflowers — Clusters, 3-20, head-like to often short-cylindric, 6-20-flowered, terminating branches; branches simple, erect or ascending; bracts 1-3, leaf-like, at base of each branch. Perianths deep brown; bracts at bases of perianths 1-2, small, ...More…
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Whitetinge sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Blades 4 to 16 inches long, to 1/10 inch wide, ascending to more commonly arched outward; margins flat or somewhat rolled under. Wooded slopes, woodland clearings, under cedars; partial shade; mostly acidic sandstone or granite soils. Willd. ex ...More…
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Torrey's rush
Kansas Wildflowers — Blades 2-4, cylindric, often exceeding culms, less than 1/5 inch wide, thick, hollow, circular in cross-section, divided into partitions, glabrous, diverging abruptly from culms; bases sheathing culms; auricles rounded. Heads, spherical, dense, ...More…
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Tape-leaf flat-sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Tape-leaf nut-sedge, sharp-pointed flat-sedge, taper-leaf flat-sedge. Blades few, basal, light green, equal to or slightly longer than culms, less than 1/10 inch wide. Spikelets strongly flattened, ovate to oblong, to 1/4 inch long, closely ...More…
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Southern sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Prominently triangular, slender, stiff, wiry, rough, 8 to 40 inches long, much surpassing leaves, pale brown at base, often forming angle of 50° or less with ground. Open, tight, occasionally somewhat wrinkled, thickened at mouth, well-developed ...More…
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Soft-stem bulrush
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, stout, unbranched, round in cross-section, to 1 inch in diameter, soft, pale green, glabrous. Mostly sheathing and without blades, upper ones sometimes with tapered blades. Umbels, panicle-like, loose, much-branched, terminal, consisting ...More…
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Sensitive fern
Kansas Wildflowers — Stems are rhizomes, long-creeping, branched, glabrous, sparsely scaly. Leaves erect, irregularly spaced along stem, of two very different forms; sterile leaves simple, broadly triangular in outline, deeply-cleft into lobes that almost reach ...More…
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Scouring-rush
Kansas Wildflowers — Erect, evergreen, unbranched or irregularly branched when older, .2 to .75 inch in diameter, hollow, jointed, ridged; ridges with silica deposits. Inconspicuous, reduced to small tooth-like scales fused together in a cylindrical sheath at each ...More…
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Schweinitz's flat-sedge
Kansas Wildflowers — Usually flat but edges occasionally rolled under, seldom reaching inflorescence, up to 1/3 inch wide; margins very rough. Cluster of 1-2 sessile spikes and 2-8 short spikes on ascending stalks 1 to 5 inches long; spikes oblong to egg-shaped, each ...More…