Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Eleocharis baldwinii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more from SC Department of Natural Resources.
Read more about Baldwin's Spikerush at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eleocharis baldwinii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-03-024:
Eleocharis baldwinii FAMILY Cyperaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis baldwinii
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis capillacea
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis prolifera
COMMON NAME:
Baldwin's Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass
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Keith Bradley kab_e_baldwinii_0027
March Glades County FL
Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area
Often mat-forming, often stoloniferous, sometimes entirely vegetative, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Eleocharis baldwinii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eleocharis baldwinii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-03-024:
Eleocharis baldwinii
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis baldwinii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis capillacea
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eleocharis prolifera
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Grass, Sedge, or Rush; Aquatic: emersed & rooted or in free-floating mats; or submersed & free-floating
Annual?
Habitat: bogs, pools, acid impoundment shores. Often growing in dense mats in very wet, saturated sandy firelanes or disklines in fire-managed habitats or other somewhat-disturbed wet, acidic, sandy habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple - leaves consist of bladeless sheaths
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Often mat-forming, often stoloniferous; rhizomes absent
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Scales reddish with yellowish keels
Nutlet
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