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Carl Linnaeus was not kidding when he chose the name Ambrosia for it: achene, its nutritious fruit, provides lots of calories to wildlife.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 9, 2011
Culms slender or filiform; tubercle narrower, acute, beak-like, sometimes half as long as the achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Culms sharply triangular, capillary, twisting when dry; spikelet 2–3´´ long, few-flowered; conical-beaked tubercle much smaller than the achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Calyx 5-parted, petaloid, loosely persistent about the achene, the 3 inner divisions often enlarging in fruit, in which case the outer are usually spreading.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Fruit a circumscissile 2-celled capsule, with one or more peltate seeds in each cell, or an achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
