The flowering structures of this medium-textured clumping sedge hover, straight or nodding, high above the upright grass-like leaves of the foliage. Each inflorescence contains several yellowish green ovoid spikelets bearing enclosed ovoid-flattened achenes that contain the seeds; the enclosures turn from green to tan or brown in late summer.

Brown inflorescence of Bicknell’s sedge. Photo: Bruce Schuette.