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Rhynchospora capillacea
Also called Capillary beakrush, Horned Beakrush, Hair Like Beakrush, Needle Beakrush, Slender Beakrush
Rhynchospora capillacea is a species of sedge known by the common names needle beaksedge, slender beakrush and needle beakrush. It is native to eastern North America from Labrador to Alberta, and south to Texas. It grows in wet, usually calcareous habitat, such as fens, sandy or stony shores, interdunal flats, and wet meadows It is a perennial herb producing clumps of stems 10 to 40 centimetres (3.9 to 15.7 in) tall, each stem with very narrow, filiform leaves. The inflorescence consists of few (1–4) narrow brown spikelets each about 6 or 7 millimetres long.
White beaksedge · Baldwin's beaksedge · Little beaksedge · Rhynchospora biflora · West Indian beaksedge · Anglestem beaksedge · California beaksedge · Brownish beaksedge · Broadfruit horned beaksedge · Bunched beaksedge · Rhynchospora cephalotes · Loosehead beaksedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhynchospora capillacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
