Plant Description:

• Wetland grass growing up to 150 cm high
• Smooth sheaths with relaxed blades
• Flowers droop and have fine, straight awns
• Found in marshes, lake shores and moist areas
• An important food for bison
• Cree used this plant to make mattresses and to line winter storage pits
• Found at Stops 3, 6, and 12

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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