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2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
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Key to Trichophorum

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1 Culms terete or nearly so, smooth; [(in our area) moderate to high elevation cliffs]
1 Culms sharply triangular in cross-section, the angles scabrous; [either low to moderate elevation forests, woodlands, and bluffs, or bogs].
  2 Bristles flat, white, 10-30 mm long; [bogs, Coastal Plain of NJ]
  2 Bristles terete, tan, about 2 mm long; [low to moderate elevation forests, woodlands, and bluffs, AR, KY, VA northwards]