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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhynchospora pallida
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Like R. alba and R. macra, it has scales which are at first bright white, "fading" in age to a medium tan or light brown. These three species are thus superficially most distinctive (from other Rhynchospora) in June, July, and August. The bristle characters separate the three species easily. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
Learn more from Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora pallida
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-13-007:
Rhynchospora pallida FAMILY Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rynchospora pallida
COMMON NAME:
Pale Beaksedge
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_rhpa_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhynchospora pallida
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora pallida
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Rhynchospora pallida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-13-007:
Rhynchospora pallida
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rynchospora pallida
4872
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: pine savanna-pocosin and sandhill-pocosin ecotones, peaty seepage bogs, usually growing in or near Sphagnum, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Uncommon in NC, rare in SC
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LEAVES:
Simple
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with short rhizomes
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlets brownish with yellowish center
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