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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora rariflora   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)

Rhynchospora rariflora

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

Rhynchospora rariflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-13-030:

Rhynchospora rariflora   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

Rynchospora rariflora

 

COMMON NAME:
Few-flower Beaksedge


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora rariflora   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)
Rhynchospora rariflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Rhynchospora rariflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-13-030:
Rhynchospora rariflora   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4531

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, seepage bogs in the fall-line Sandhills, bogs in the Piedmont and Mountains, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate, mostly 3-ranked, culms leafy

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Densely cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with slender, compact, branching rhizomes

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets light reddish-brown or brown
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlets yellowish
Nutlet

 

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