Carex leporina

Tülü sazotu

Syn: C.ovalis

Rhizomes rather stout. Stems 10-60 cm, stiff, erect or sometimes curved at base, sharply trigonous and scabrid above; basal sheaths pale pinkish-brown to greyish-brown, becoming fibrous. Leaves 1,5-3.5 mm broad, shorter than stems, rather soft, ± flat, mid- to dark green. Inflorescence oblong to ovoid, 2-4 cm, with 2-9 ± aggregated spikes sometimes forming a ± distinct spiral; lowest bract longer than its spike. Spikes ovoid to 0 bovoid, 0.8-1.5 cm, all ± similar, dense, gynecandrous or lowest sometimes entirely female. Female glurnes narrowly ovate, ±equalling utricles, acute, ±keeled, pale rusty-brown, distinctly hyaline-margined, mid-vein greenish. Utricles pale brown, ellipsoidovoid, 4-5 mm, membranous, with many distinct veins at least on back, rather broadly scabrid-winged in upper half; beak c. 1 mm, obliquely bifid. Open forests, forest margins, water meadows, streamsides, roadsides, nr s.l.-2650 m.