Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Cyperaceae
Carex collinsii

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Cyperaceae
Carex collinsii

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Cyperaceae
030-17-104
Carex collinsii

Common Name:
Collins' Sedge

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Monoecious

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (GA Rare, NC Watch List, SC Rare)
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in white cedar bogs & pocosins in the Coastal Plain, bogs in the southwest mountains of NC (where associated with Coastal Plain disjuncts), per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet

Leaves:
Simple

Flower:
Summer
3 stamens

Fruit:
Summer
Nutlet

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