3956

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC), endemic

Look for it in limesink ponds (dolines), depression meadows, clay-based Carolina bays, wet pine savannas, wet pine flatwoods, marl prairies, disturbed areas (such as seeps in powerline rights-of-way), always in places with a seasonally high water-table, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Inflorescences terminal and axillary spikes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Grain

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Manual of the Grasses of the United States p787

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Mnesithea rugosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Coelorachis rugosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-82-001:
Manisuris rugosa   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Manisuris rugosa

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