OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cyperus flavescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)

Cyperus flavescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-01-004:

Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cyperus flavescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Flatsedge


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image of Cyperus flavescens, Yellow Flatsedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cyfl_001_lvd

        

image of Cyperus flavescens, Yellow Flatsedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_cyfl_005_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cyperus flavescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Cyperus flavescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-01-004:
Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyperus flavescens

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4247

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Low fields, ditches, marshes, especially where seasonally flooded, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate (blades often absent)

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikes yellowish
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spikes yellowish
Nutlet

 

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