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General:
Perennial, tufted herb from short, stout rhizomes; stems 20-30 cm tall, from shorter than to slightly longer than the leaves.
Leaves:
Sheaths pale green or bluish-green, the lower ones reduced, numerous, flat or channeled, the margins rolled-under, gradually tapering to the tips, 2-3 mm wide.
Flowers:
Spikes 3 to 5, the terminal one lanceolate, 6-12 mm long, with male flowers and with a few female flowers at the bases, the lower spikes 2 to 4, shortly cylindrical, 6-12 mm long, short-stalked, with female flowers, erect (the lowermost 1 or 2 spikes sometimes rising from the bases on long stalks); bracts subtending the female spikes awnlike, 1 cm long or less.
Fruits:
Perigynia broadly club-shaped, 3.5-4.5 mm long, 1.3-1.6 mm wide, pale greenish or straw-coloured, 3-angled, obscurely hairy, 2-keeled, nerveless, crowded, erect, long-stalked, beakless; female scales broadly egg-shaped, broadest at the tops, with short awns, purplish, with paler midribs, slightly shorter than the perigynia; stigmas 3; achenes 3-angled, 1.5 mm long.
Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
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