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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Fuirena pumila
|accepted_authority=(Torrey) Sprengel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Veg.
|place=1: 237. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Fuirena squarrosa var. pumila
|authority=Torrey
|publication_title=Fl. N. Middle United States
|publication_place=1: 68. 1824
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Fuirena;Fuirena pumila
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fuirena]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fuirena pumila]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 37
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, cespitose, (8–)20–60 cm. <b>Culms</b> erect or spreading, slender, stiff. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths hirsute; principal blades linear to lance-linear, 5–12 cm, hirsute-hispid-ciliate, surfaces strigose-hispid or glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> in solitary terminal clusters or several terminal clusters, less often from proximal 1–2 nodes, principal involucral bract mostly exceeding compound or cluster. <b>Spikelets</b> lance-ovoid to cylindric, 5–8(–12) mm, apex acute; fertile scales oblong to obovate, 2.5–3 mm; cusp excurved, nearly length of scale, scabridulous; median ribs 3, strong. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles extending at least to base of perianth blades, often near to tips, retrorsely barbellate; perianth blades long-clawed, mostly ovate, base 3–5-ribbed, apex slenderly acuminate, incurved, awned; anthers 1–3, 0.5–0.7 mm. <b>Achenes</b>: stipe slender; body angles wirelike, faces lustrous, deep brown to red-brown, 1 mm; beak slender, stiff, tip papillate. <b>2n</b> = 46.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet pond shores, seeps, savannas and swales, moist sandy waste places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
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name=Fuirena pumila
|author=
|authority=(Torrey) Sprengel
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Fuirena squarrosa var. pumila
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist to wet pond shores, seeps, savannas and swales, moist sandy waste places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ind.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Veg.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
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|genus=Fuirena
|species=Fuirena pumila
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