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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)

Bulbostylis capillaris

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-06-001:

Bulbostylis capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Stenophyllus capillaris

 

COMMON NAME:
Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge


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image of Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris, Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_stca17_001_lvd

        

image of Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris, Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

JK Marlow    jkm220809_9526

August    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris, Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

JK Marlow    jkm220809_9527

August    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Frequently with a mixture of long and very short culms, the short nearly hidden among the leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris, Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

JK Marlow    jkm230808_4850

August    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Leaf blades filiform, 0.5mm wide, involute, margins ciliate-scabrid, surface glabrous, per Flora of North America.

image of Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris, Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

JK Marlow    jkm230808_4855

August    Pickens County    SC

Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve

Spikelets red-brown, ovoid to lanceoloid, 3-5mm, per Flora of North America.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Bulbostylis capillaris

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-06-001:
Bulbostylis capillaris   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stenophyllus capillaris

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4464

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Thin soils on rock outcrops, especially granite domes and granite flatrocks (but also on mafic rocks, such as diabase), sandy soils, fields, bogs (in FL), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

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

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Scales brown or purple
Spikelets sessile or pedicellate
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Spikelets solitary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlet

 

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