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Deciduous forests, especially rich beech-maple-hemlock stands, forested dunes, rarely under white-cedar. Reported from Isle Royale with the original description, but no specimens from there have been located. The species is wide-ranging in the western United States and adjacent Canada, re-occurring in the northern Great Lakes area east to the Ottawa district, Quebec. The panicle branches are reflexed at maturity. The base of the stem is ± bulbous; this character, together with the densely antrorse-hispid pedicels and retrorsely scabrous sheaths, makes even over-ripe specimens readily identifiable.

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