4204

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial? Annual?

Non-native: Eurasia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Look for it in ponds, ditches, ricefields, disturbed wet ground, per Weakley's Flora

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast

 

...Wet

LEAVES:
Leaf blades absent
Basal

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Brown
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Dark to blackish brown
Achene

 

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

• New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US p097

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Schoenoplectiella mucronata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Schoenoplectiella mucronata   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Schoenoplectus mucronatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Linnaeus
Scirpus mucronatus