NameThatPlant.net: Cyperus squarrosus var. squarrosus

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus squarrosus var. squarrosus FAMILY Cyperaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Awned Flatsedge at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cyperus squarrosus FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Cyperus aristatus

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Cyperus inflexus

COMMON NAME:
Awned Flatsedge, Bearded Flatsedge

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image of Cyperus squarrosus var. squarrosus, Awned Flatsedge, Bearded Flatsedge

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_cyin9_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_cysq_003_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cyperus squarrosus var. squarrosus FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cyperus squarrosus FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cyperus aristatus

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Cyperus inflexus

3969

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Moist depressions and seepages on granitic and other rocks, drawdown riverbanks, swales, shores, coastal rock barrens, other moist disturbed sites, cracks in sidewalks and pavement, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in GA & SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Nutlet

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

Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges & Rushes of the US (Knobel, 1899) (Faust, 1977) p53

"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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