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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Rhynchospora rariflora
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This species is clump-forming or tussock-forming, with threadlike leaves and lazy stems. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
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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