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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Scleria verticillata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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This species is a distinct calciphile, with only scattered occurrences in most of our area (north of FL). Previous reports of a much broader distribution (West Indies; Mexico, Central America, and South America) are based on other species segregated form S. verticillata, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scleria verticillata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-15-007:
Scleria verticillata FAMILY Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scleria verticillata
COMMON NAME:
Savanna Nutrush, Low Nutrush
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_scve2_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Scleria verticillata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scleria verticillata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Scleria verticillata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-15-007:
Scleria verticillata
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scleria verticillata
4875
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Monoecious
Habitat: Wet calcareous pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, freshwater marshes and maritime wet grasslands on barrier islands influenced by salt spray and shell deposits, wet calcareous or mafic fens or seepages in the mountains, calcareous grasslands, also apparently spreading to ditches along Coastal Plain 'marl' roads (made from coquina limestone gravel). This species is a distinct calciphile, with only scattered occurrences in most of our area (north of FL), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly low alternate, 3-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Superior ovary
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlet
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