NameThatPlant.net: Eleocharis baldwinii

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Eleocharis baldwinii FAMILY Cyperaceae Go to FSUS key

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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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.

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 shores, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

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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

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

Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama (Lovell, 2007) p41

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