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Fewflower nutrush

Scleria pauciflora

Also called Carolina nutrush, Few Flowered Nutrush, Papillose Nutrush

Fewflower nutrush
Photo: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possession, Public domain
Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A., Cuba
Climate
temperate

About

Scleria pauciflora, known as few-flowered nutrush, papillose nut-sedge, and Carolina-whipgrass, is a plant in the sedge family (Cyperaceae) native to northern Mexico, the eastern United States, southern Canada, and Cuba. It is common across a broad stretch of the southeastern United States in many different habitat types, becoming rare at the northern end of its distribution. It has been observed to occur in habitats such as pine savannas, wet and dry pine flatwoods, slashpine woods, and along boggy riverbanks.

Other Scleria plants

Scleria afroreflexa · Scleria amazonica · Nutrush · Bracted nutrush · Nutrush · Fringed nutrush · Scleria dregeana · Scleria foliosa · Scleria greigiifolia · Scleria iostephana · Tufted Scleria Sedge · Scleria mikawana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scleria pauciflora 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.

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