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Common Name:
Annual Greenhead Sedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Cyperus tenuifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Kyllinga pumila
Spikes 1-3, greenish, cylindric to subglobose, sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Kyllinga odorata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus flavescens
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Common Name:
Granite Flatsedge
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus inflexus
Spikes congested, subglobose. Bracts 2-5, 1-8cm long, 1-2mm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cyperus aristatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus inflexus
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Common Name:
Fragrant Flatsedge
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Cyperus ferruginescens
Bracts numerous, 3-7mm wide. Spikes numerous, congested, loosely cylindric, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus engelmannii
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Common Name:
jointed flatsedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus articulatus
Spikes usually numerous, congested, appearing as irregular clusters, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Redroot Flatsedge
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus erythrorhizos
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus halei
Spikes numerous, congested, cylindrical. Central sessile, lateral rays unequal, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Purple Nutsedge, Nutgrass, Cocograss
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Common Name:
Yellow Nutsedge, Yellow Nutgrass, Wild Chufa, Earth-almond
Spikes usually numerous, loose or congested, broadly cylindric to subglobose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Rice-field Flatsedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus iria
Spikes numerous in irregularly ascending, umbellate clusters, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Poorland Flatsedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus compressus
Spikelets digitate or subdigitate, broadly linear to slightly tetragonal, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
green flatsedge
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus virens
Spikes numerous in congested umbellate clusters. Spikelets digitate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
False Nutsedge
Spikelets pinnate, linear, usually many-flowered, 5-25mm long, 1.5mm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Cyperus lancastriensis
Common Name:
Starburst Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Sedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Cyperus retrofractus var. retrofractus
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus retrofractus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus ovularis
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Common Name:
Pineland Flatsedge
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus retrorsus
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus torreyi
Spikes cylindric or subcylindric, less than 1cm broad, less than 3x as long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Globe Sedge
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus globosus
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cyperus multiflorus
Spikes subglobose, dense, 5-20mm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Southeastern Flatsedge
Spikes subglobose, 5-30mm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cyperus difformis
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Common Name:
Deep-rooted Sedge
5-11 rays to 13cm long, each terminated by a dense ~ capitate spike, per Cyperus entrerianus: A Little Known Aggressive Sedge in the Southeastern United States (Carter & Bryson, 1996).
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Cyperus involucratus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Kyllinga squamulata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Kyllinga squamulata
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Common Name:
Three-way Sedge
INCLUDED WITHIN
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Dulichium arundinaceum
Numerous flowers grow in twice-branched clusters from upper leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Common Name:
Horsetail Spikerush
Spikes many-flowered, not wider than stem; stem knotted or jointed, per Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges & Rushes of the US.
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Eleocharis ovata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Eleocharis obtusa
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Common Name:
Canada spikesedge, Bent spikerush
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Eleocharis caribaea
Spike abruptly expanded from the culm, > 2x thick as culm immediately below, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Sand Spikerush
Common Name:
Viviparous Spikerush
Common Name:
Baldwin’s Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Eleocharis baldwinii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Eleocharis prolifera
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Whitetop Sedge, Giant White-topped Sedge, White-bracted Sedge
This and R. colorata are our only two sedges with showy white bracts, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Whitetop Sedge, White-bracted Sedge
Inflorescence bracts 3-6(7); basal bract's white tapering gradually into green, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Savannah Hairsedge
Spikelets mostly on slender pedicels, inflorescence thus open and umbel-like, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Elliott's Hairsedge
Spikelets mostly on slender pedicels, inflorescence thus open and umbel-like, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Ware's Hairsedge
Spikelets sessile, the inflorescence thus a capitate cluster, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
sandy field hairsedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stenophyllus stenophyllus
Spikelets sessile, the inflorescence thus a capitate cluster, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Old World Hairsedge
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Stenophyllus barbatus
Spikelets sessile, the inflorescence thus a capitate cluster, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Marsh Fimbry
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fimbristylis spadicea
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Common Name:
Carolina Fimbry
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fimbristylis harperi
Inflorescence terminal, cymose, with sessile and pedicellate spikelets, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Harper's Fimbry
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fimbristylis perpusilla
Plants diminuitive; leaf blades < 1mm wide; inflorescence bracts 1-2 cm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
ditch fimbry
Spikelets pale, usually solitary on scape (thus resembling Eleocharis), per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Deerhair Bulrush, Deergrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Trichophorum caespitosum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus caespitosus
Spikelet solitary, involucral bract absent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Keeled Bulrush
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus carinatus
Inflorescence of 1-3 ovoid, sessile spikelets, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Scirpus pungens var. pungens
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Common Name:
Softstem Bulrush, Great Bulrush
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Scirpus tabernaemontani
Each branchlet ends in one spikelet or a dense cluster of 2-5 spikelets, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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Common Name:
Saltmarsh Bulrush
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Bolboschoenus robustus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus robustus
Inflorescence relatively congested, most w 5-20 spikelets; bristles ~ caducous, per Weakley's Flora.
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus atrovirens
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Common Name:
Georgia Bulrush
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus georgianus
Spikelets in umbellate clusters or heads. Nutlets whitish; bristles us. absent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Leafy Bulrush
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Scirpus polyphyllus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus polyphyllus
Inflorescence branched. Spikelets in umbellate clusters or heads, sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Woolgrass Bulrush, Marsh Bulrush
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus cyperinus
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus eriophorum
Spikelets in large terminal arching clusters, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Common Name:
Giant Bulrush, Southern Bulrush, Tule
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus californicus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scirpus cubensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Schoenoplectus mucronatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Linnaeus
Scirpus mucronatus
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Common Name:
Tawny Cottongrass
Inflorescence a dense terminal head, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.