Hillside woods edge near exposed chalk. Seems like it would be to dry for Scirpus pendulus ?
Bristles with teeth along the margin, strongly contorted; shorter than achene; scales with broad green midrib, spikelets on well-developed pedicels; locally common in wet oak-hickory-ash bottomland forest
Large colony, maybe 60 -70 plants, with at least 2 having bloomed last season. Area recently burned, unknown, whether accidental or intentional.
Odor of flowers foul, like rotting meat. Common in mesic pine-oak forest