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Habitat: Usually in disturbed areas, such as fields in floodplains
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Each elongate receptacle (mouse tail) bears one flower at its base, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
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The "mouse tail" will grow up to 6cm long in fruit, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).
Habitat: Aquatic or semi-aquatic in streambeds with outcrops of slate, limestone, or calcareous clay, and aquatic in tidal estuaries
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Summer and winter leaves dimorphic, spring leaves showing a gradual transition between the two, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Leaf venation pinnate, some major veins departing midvein well above leaf base, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Spikes on scapes from plant base, the inflorescences often 1 meter in height, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
Habitat: Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas
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Scape solid, terete, erect. Spike 4-22cm long, dense in flower and fruit, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Lvs glabrous to very pubescent, petioles green (rarely w slight purple tinge), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas
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Flowers in a dense spike, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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Sepals narrowly elliptic, 2-4× long as wide (vs. P. major ~1.5× long as wide), per Weakley's Flora.
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Well-developed leaves with 5-7 major veins, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Capsule circumscissile [dehiscing along a transverse circular line like a lid], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Lawns, roadsides, disturbed areas
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Perennial with a distinctive rosette of leaves, per Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992).
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Stamens & stigmas well-exserted; stamens mature before the stigmas, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Sandy and other barren soils, disturbed areas, especially dry, barren, exposed soil, such as clay soils denuded by bulldozing
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Basal leaves to 8" long are linear or very narrowly elliptic, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Fruits are 2-seeded capsules, circumscissile near the middle, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Linear floral bracts to 1" long extend well past the flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
Habitat: Sandy, rocky, or gravelly prairies and open woodlands; eastwards in on roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas
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Leaves of this & P. aristata are linear, those of P. virginica oblanceolate, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bracts 0.5-1x long as calyx [vs. longer bracts of P. aristata 8-30mm long], per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Habitat: Saline marshes, thin soils over rock, roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas
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Leaves hairy and petioles purple at base, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Upper part of the rachis hidden by flowers or fruit, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
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Calyx lobes hyaline margined, equal to or slightly shorter than bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Disturbed areas; introduced from Eurasia
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Densely flowered/fruited spike 0.8-1.8cm long; stamens & stigmas well-exserted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Plant usually with opposite branches. Leaves opposite cauline, linear, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).