Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex picta
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex picta
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex picta
COMMON NAME:
Painted Sedge
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_capi5_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex picta
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex picta
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex picta
2868
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Dioecious
Habitat: Dry to dry-mesic oak-hickory forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal? Alternate, 3-ranked?
FLOWER:
Spring
Purplish
Purplish
Perianth absent
3 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual
Inflorescence a spike (a single unisexual spike per stem)
FRUIT:
Nutlet
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