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  • papillose; embryo coiled around perisperm. North America (especially Calif.), West Indies, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, some
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  • Widespread in Northern Hemisphere, especially North America, Europe, and central and northern Asia, sporadic in South America and northern Africa. Species ca
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  • Names and types of perennial Atriplex Linnaeus (Chenopodiaceae) in North America selectively exclusive of Mexico. Great Basin Naturalist 55: 322–334.
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  • Treatment on page 425. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants usually forming systemic witches' brooms, sometimes
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  • 411, 429, 430. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs, erect, 1–3 m; burl absent; twigs glabrous, sparsely
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  • Mentioned on page 188. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants usually less than 1 m. Main stems 2–4 cm diam. at
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  • 412, 413, 416. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants glabrous or nearly so. Stems erect, branched, usually
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  • Mentioned on page 307. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants robust, tufted, glossy, green to dark green. Stems
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  • Mentioned on page 459. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems prostrate to ascending, 10–45 cm. Leaf blades ± ovate
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  • Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants densely to moderately pubescent, especially distal parts of stem and branches. Stems
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  • Mentioned on page 446. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems spreading or ascending to erect, forming dense mats
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  • Mentioned on page 135. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes present, thick, woody
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs, 1-3 m. Leaves 2.5-10 × 0.7-2.5 cm; blade lanceolate;
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  • recognized. Descriptions of eastern North American taxa are largely based on Greene's (1980) observations. Northwestern North American taxa are described on the
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  • Mentioned on page 163. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs, 5–10 dm, monoecious. Stems erect, hirsute and stipitate-glandular
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  • page 149, 168. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs [perennial herbs], not viviparous, [1–]7–10[–20] dm
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  • Nearly worldwide, Juncus bufonius is found essentially throughout North America except north of the Alaskan and Canadian tTaiga. Juncus bufonius is a highly
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  • Treatment on page 455. Illustrator: Bee F. Gunn Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants short-stemmed, budding from leaf axils, forming fragmented
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  • equal, smooth to barbellulate bristles or aristate scales. x = 9. c, w North America. Species 4 (4 in the flora). Because pappi of Nothocalaïs taxa vary from
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  • Mentioned on page 183. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 2–5 mm, pale yellow-green. Leaves variously contorted
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Trees, deciduous, to 25 m. Bark dark brown to black, ridges
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  • page 271, 275. Illustrator: Marjorie C. Leggitt Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 10–70 cm; self-incompatible. Stems simple or branched
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  • appears in FNA Volume 2. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Trees to 40m; trunk to 1.5m diam., typically buttressed;
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  • Mentioned on page 85. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants perennial. Roots single, to 30 × 1–2.5 cm. Leaves:
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  • page 85, 86, 102. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs acaulecent; caudex branched. Flowering stems 10–90
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  • Flora of North America Association Leaves: blade usually streaked with white only along midrib, sometimes with fine white lateral veins, especially near midrib
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  • in accepting four northern subspecies of P. anserina, all present in North America. A. Rousi (1965) demonstrated partial interfertility between the races
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  • cultivated in the warmer regions of North America, but it was only recently discovered that cultivation occurred north of the Mexican border. Such agaves
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  • in FNA Volume 2. Illustrator: Laurie Klingensmith Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants usually aquatic, occasionally emergent. Rootstock
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  • Treatment on page 148. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Roots shorter than 15 cm, tip mostly rounded; sheath not
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  • page 413, 428. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants annual, glabrous. Stems prostrate, whitish or tinged
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  • Mentioned on page 271. Illustrator: Marjorie C. Leggitt Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 30–90 cm; self-incompatible. Stems usually simple
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  • Mentioned on page 328. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaf blades: margins entire, dentate, or laciniately pinnatifid
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  • Mentioned on page 85. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves 1.5–2.5 mm; margins recurved to mid leaf, plane mid
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  • spread throughout much of North America. The expansion of this species’s range from its original collection in North America, apparently about 1840, has
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  • Mentioned on page 472. Illustrator: Bee F. Gunn Copyright: Flora of North America Association Perennials 20–60 cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. Stems 1–5+
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  • Mentioned on page 120. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants erect, decumbent, or prostrate, (4–)4.5–30(–35) cm
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  • Gunn Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems 0.5–4.5 dm. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, orbicular but not especially samaralike, compressed, (2–)3–4
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  • page 122, 130. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants rarely bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous
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  • Treatment on page 269. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves (proximal) 1–3(–5) cm, smaller distally. Peduncular
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  • on page 491, 492. Illustrator: Susan A. Reznicek Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants cespitose; rhizomes short. Culms central, trigonous
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  • Illustrator: Bee F. Gunn Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants mainly 8–20 dm, not especially armed, not or seldom layering. Pistillate flowers
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  • treat the North American species. It is notable that the species with solitary spikelets are concentrated in western and northern North America, whereas
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  • nearly worldwide. Three distinct subspecies seemingly apparently occur in North America. They are separated mainly by the size of the plants and the peduncle
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  • Volume 22. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems branched, especially distally, terete to slightly compressed, to 75 cm
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  • 2004) refer all material of Antitrichia curtipendula in western North America, especially along the coast, to A. curtipendula var. gigantea or A. gigantea
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  • S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Va., Vt., W.Va., Wash., Wis., Wyo., North America, Eurasia, Africa, introduced in Australia. Varieties 3+ (2 in the flora)
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  • complex in northwestern North America, with emphasis on British Columbia. Phytotogia 57:1-17 Piper, C.V. 1906. North American species of Festuca Contr
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  • subdivide the species in North America for this treatment failed. The species is extremely morphologically variable, especially with regard to leaf shape
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  • page 255, 268, 288. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs, annual, with taproot. Stems prostrate, loosely mat-forming
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  • Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs, annual; herbage hairy (whitish), especially young shoots, becoming glabrate. Stems
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  • nutlets, obovoid or subglobose, smooth, ridged, or tuberculate. x = 5. w North America. Species 7 (7 in the flora). Limnanthes was divided into two sections
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  • on page 592, 596. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants in mats, wide-spreading, dark green when dry, bright
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs, spreading or ascending, to 3 m. Bark dark brown,
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  • page 84, 85, 86. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves 2–2.5 mm; margins broadly or narrowly recurved in
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  • on page 325, 337. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants to 20 cm. Stems with innovations usually forming ascending
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  • on page 424, 426. Illustrator: Susan A. Reznicek Copyright: Flora of North America Association Culms 5–40 cm. Leaves: blades 3–20(–30) cm × 1.4–3 mm. Inflorescences:
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  • Mentioned on page 296. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Leaves 35–80 mm during flowering, margins regularly toothed
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  • Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems glaucous. Basal leaves gray-green, glaucous, often purple-tinged, especially abaxially, often adaxially
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  • Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems glabrous when young. Leaf blade margins eglandular-hairy, especially on young leaves, hairs scattered
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  • Mentioned on page 596. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants in pendulous wefts, green to deep green. Stems to
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  • Yukon, Alaska, Calif., Oreg., Wash., n Asia. This primarily subarctic Asian subspecies has long been mistaken in western North America for Alnus alnobetula
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  • 87, 89, 92, 94. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs, deciduous, 1.5–3 m. Stems ascending to erect, not
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  • Treatment on page 27. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 1–12 cm, covered with stalked glands, somewhat fleshy
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  • Copyright: Flora of North America Association Annuals. Roots not fleshy, not clustered. Stems usually erect, sometimes decumbent (especially in coastal forms)
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  • on page 263, 282. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants dense, soft, silky, green to yellow-brown. Stems with
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  • Mentioned on page 416. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs, erect to spreading, 1–4(–5) dm, glabrous or tomentose
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Rhizomes frequently branched, repent, cylindric; stolons
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  • forms for North America, but later (1957) did not recognize infraspecific taxa. Most plants from the Arctic to cool-temperate North America, including
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  • 3–15(–22) × 1.5–5.5 cm, often bearing a thin, white, powdery exudate, especially on bract surfaces; bracts greenish, scarlet, red, red-orange, or pale
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  • (sometimes 2 kinds in combination on single cypselae). x = 8. w North America, nw Mexico, South America (Chile). Species 18 (17 in the flora). Lasthenias occur
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  • Mentioned on page 5, 6, 8. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants to 3(–7) m. Leaves: petiole 1–6 cm; blade lanceolate
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, villous, not
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  • Mentioned on page 23. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems 10–50 cm, branches spreading or ascending. Leaves:
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  • Map Ariz., Calif., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., Mexico (Baja California and Chihuahua). Quercus chrysolepis is one of the most variable North American oaks. Historically
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Trees, evergreen, to 25 m. Bark gray to dark brown or black
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  • Mentioned on page 83, 85. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems erect, arching, procumbent, or climbing, 15–30(–100)
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  • wild. This species served as an especially important source of food for native peoples throughout western North America, and the dried berries were used
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  • B.C., N.W.T., Nunavut, Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Utah, Wash., Wyo., especially at high elevations and northern latitudes, Eurasia
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  • Mentioned on page 82. Illustrator: Elizabeth Zimmerman Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants perennial, densely tufted; rhizomes often hidden by
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  • 97, 103, 104. Illustrator: Elizabeth Zimmerman Copyright: Flora of North America Association Culms 3–50(–90) cm × 0.2–2 mm. Leaves: apex of distal leaf
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  • Mentioned on page 368. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 10–40(–70) cm. Stems usually simple, sometimes branched
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  • Treatment on page 487. Illustrator: Bee F. Gunn Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants 1–4(–6) dm. Stems prostrate, decumbent, or ascending
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  • Treatment on page 197. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems sometimes proximally woody. Leaves mostly basal; blades
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  • appears in FNA Volume 3. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous
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  • gardens throughout North America. It is variable throughout the temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in China and Japan
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  • Mentioned on page 420. Illustrator: Linny Heagy Copyright: Flora of North America Association Rosettes often clumping in older specimens; whole plant black
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  • 9. Treatment on page 79. Illustrator: John Myers Copyright: Flora of North America Association Shrubs forming dense, low thickets. Stems usually erect,
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  • 239, 240, 317, 318. Illustrator: Barbara Alongi Copyright: Flora of North America Association Herbs, annual or perennial, with slender to thick, woody
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  • Sanguisorba officinalis in eastern North America represent introductions from Eurasia; the species is native in western North America. Near the southern end of
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  • The plants are distinctive especially in summer when sporophytes are produced, because H. dieckei is the only North American species with nodding capsules
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  • as medicine, and also in the material culture of Native Americans of northwestern North America (S. A. Thompson 1995). Although considered to be a famine
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  • on page 279, 280. Illustrator: Susan A. Reznicek Copyright: Flora of North America Association Culms (1–)2–90 cm. Leaves: sheaths adaxially whitish, conspicuously
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  • Central America, w South America, e Asia. Species ca. 29 (5 in the flora). Hydrangea enjoys considerable esteem as an ornamental shrub, especially for its
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  • Mentioned on page 296. Illustrator: Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Copyright: Flora of North America Association Stems erect to sprawling, simple to much-branched, 1–30 dm
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  • Scattered in rocky places, especially north- and east-facing canyon walls Elevation: 0-600 m Generated Map Legacy Map Calif. Of conservation concern. Dudleya
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  • separated geographically as well as morphologically. Populations in western North America consist primarily of subsp. pacifica; east of the continental divide
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  • on page 324, 377. Illustrator: Patricia M. Eckel Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants large, in coarse mats, yellow to yellowish green.
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  • 494, 496, 499, 507. Illustrator: Susan A. Reznicek Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants colonial; rhizomes long-creeping. Culms lateral, trigonous
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  • Treatment on page 296. Illustrator: Marjorie C. Leggitt Copyright: Flora of North America Association Plants prostrate or spreading to weakly erect. Leaves: stipules
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