Carex plantaginea gallery
Plantain Sedge Gallery
Young plant with male spikelets in flower
This species is protandrous - at this stage the female spikelets are hidden by the purple bracts.
Ricketts Glen State Park (Luzerne Co)
by George Chamuris on 04/13/2021
Plant with basal leaves and fertile shoots
Note the purple bracts along the culms. A single male spikelets is borne terminally, with several female spikelets along the culm.
Ricketts Glen State Park (Luzerne Co)
by George Chamuris on 04/27/2021
Culm with male and female spikelets
Male spikelets are terminal while female spikelets are below.
Ricketts Glen State Park (Luzerne Co)
by George Chamuris on 04/27/2021
Female spikelet emergent from purple bract
Ricketts Glen State Park (Luzerne Co)
by George Chamuris on 05/06/2021
Basal leaves
Basal leaves and fallen fertile shoots