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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

Scleria verticillata

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

Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-15-007:

Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

Scleria verticillata

 

COMMON NAME:
Savanna Nutrush, Low Nutrush


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image of Scleria verticillata, Savanna Nutrush, Low Nutrush

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_scve2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Scleria verticillata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-15-007:
Scleria verticillata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4875

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Monoecious

Habitat: Wet calcareous pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, freshwater marshes and maritime wet grasslands on barrier islands influenced by salt spray and shell deposits, wet calcareous or mafic fens or seepages in the mountains, calcareous grasslands, also apparently spreading to ditches along Coastal Plain 'marl' roads (made from coquina limestone gravel). This species is a distinct calciphile, with only scattered occurrences in most of our area (north of FL), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly low alternate, 3-ranked

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

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Superior ovary
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlet

 

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