Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex collinsii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Collins' Sedge at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex collinsii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Carex collinsiae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-104:
Carex collinsii FAMILY Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex collinsii
COMMON NAME:
Collins' Sedge
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_caco21_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex collinsii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex collinsii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR)
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Carex collinsiae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-104:
Carex collinsii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex collinsii
2537
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: White cedar (Chamaecyparis) bogs, pocosins, and sphagnous, seepage-fed streamhead swamps in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the southwest mountains of NC (where associated with other Coastal Plain disjuncts), usually growing in Sphagnum, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal? Alternate, 3-ranked?
FLOWER:
Summer
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual
Inflorescences: spikes (terminal staminate, overlapped by 1-4 lateral pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer
Nutlet
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