Carex leporina

Rhizome short; shoots densely tufted. Culms erect to decumbent, trigonous, scabrous above, 10–60(–90) cm long, c. 1 mm diam. Leaves shorter than culms; blade 1–3.5 mm wide; sheath grey-brown; ligule obtuse to rounded. Inflorescence narrow, erect, 2–4 cm long, with 2–9 spikes solitary at nodes; lowest involucral bract shorter than inflorescence. Spikes sessile, slightly separated or contiguous, erect to spreading at maturity; spikes with female flowers above a few male flowers, or lower spikes wholly female, 0.5–1.5 cm long; glumes long-acute, yellow-brown with pale margins; female glumes 3–4.5 mm long, longer or shorter, wider or narrower than the utricle; utricles ellipsoid to ovoid, strongly several-nerved, 3.5–5 mm long, c. 2 mm diam., minutely hispid on winged upper margins, pale brown; prominent beak 1–1.5 mm long, with apex 2-fid or split abaxially, apex of beak unwinged; style 2-fid. Nut narrow-ellipsoid to obovoid, lenticular, yellow-brown. Flowers spring–summer.