4124

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual

Habitat: Tidal marshes (oligohaline and less typically mesohaline), interdune swales, near-coastal marshes, less typically inland, in south Florida interior in deep freshwater marshes and “holes” in cypress domes and strand swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence a dense, spikelike panicle

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall?
Grain dark
Grain

 

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