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3944

Grass, Sedge, or Rush; Aquatic: emersed & rooted or in free-floating mats; or submersed & free-floating
Annual?

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Look for it in bogs, pools, acid shores, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple - leaves consist of bladeless sheaths

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Often mat-forming, often stoloniferous; rhizomes absent

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Bisexual
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Scales reddish with yellowish keels
Nutlet

 

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



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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 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)
 Eleocharis baldwinii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Eleocharis prolifera

 

COMMON NAME:
 Baldwin’s Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass

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image of Eleocharis baldwinii, Baldwin’s Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass

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.