OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 193 taxa in the family Cyperaceae, Sedge family, as understood by Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.

                           

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Common Name: Perennial Greenhead Sedge, Greenhead Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus brevifolius   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Kyllinga brevifolia   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus brevifolius 030-01-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist soils of fields, ditches, lawns

Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Annual Greenhead Sedge, Low Spikesedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus hortensis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Kyllinga pumila   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus tenuifolius 030-01-002   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist soils of fields, ditches, lawns, shores of ponds and rivers

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Whitehead Sedge, Fragrant Spikesedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus sesquiflorus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Kyllinga odorata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus sesquiflorus 030-01-003   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist soils of fields, ditches, lawns, shores of ponds and rivers, sand and gravel bars

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Crested Greenhead Sedge, Asian Spikesedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus metzii   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

(?) PLANTS National Database: Kyllinga squamulata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Lawns, turf farms, athletic fields, golf courses, other disturbed areas

Rare

Non-native: Asia

 


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Common Name: Yellow Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus flavescens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus flavescens 030-01-004   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Low fields, ditches, marshes, especially where seasonally flooded

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Granite Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus granitophilus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus granitophilus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus aristatus 030-01-011   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Granitic flatrocks, rarely on diabase flatrocks of the Piedmont, Altamaha Grit glades of the Coastal Plain, and sandstone outcrops of the Cumberland Plateau

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Awned Flatsedge, Bearded Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus squarrosus var. squarrosus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus squarrosus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist depressions and seepages on granitic and other rocks, drawdown riverbanks, swales, shores, coastal rock barrens, other moist disturbed sites

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Fragrant Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus odoratus var. odoratus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus odoratus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus odoratus 030-01-013   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Low fields, marshes, ditches, sandbars

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Slender Sand Flatsedge, Engelmann's Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus engelmannii   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus odoratus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus engelmannii 030-01-013?   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Alluvial and other damp to wet soils

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


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camera icon Common Name: jointed flatsedge, Chintul

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus articulatus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus articulatus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus articulatus 030-01-015   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, tidal and non-tidal

Rare

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Redroot Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus erythrorhizos   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus erythrorhizos   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus erythrorhizos 030-01-016   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, ditches, shores, mud flats

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare in GA Mountains (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Purple Nutsedge, Nutgrass, Cocograss

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus rotundus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus rotundus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus rotundus 030-01-018   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Gardens, fields, disturbed areas

Common (uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare in Mountains)

Non-native

 


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camera icon Common Name: Yellow Nutsedge, Yellow Nutgrass, Wild Chufa, Earth-almond

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus esculentus var. leptostachyus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Cyperus esculentus var. leptostachyus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus esculentus 030-01-019   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Fields, roadsides, shores, other disturbed areas

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Rice-field Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus iria   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus iria   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus iria 030-01-020   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, ditches, disturbed wet areas, sandbars and gravelbars

Common (uncommon in SC Mountains, rare in NC Mountains)

Non-native: Old World

 


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camera icon Common Name: Poorland Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus compressus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus compressus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus compressus 030-01-022   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Sandy fields, disturbed areas

Common (rare in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Green Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus virens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus virens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus virens 030-01-028   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes and ditches

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in SC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: False Nutsedge, Straw Flatsedge, Straw-colored Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus strigosus var. strigosus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus strigosus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus strigosus 030-01-029   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, ditches, wet flatwoods, wet disturbed areas

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Many-flowered Flatsedge, Porter’s Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus lancastriensis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus lancastriensis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus lancastriensis 030-01-031   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Dry woodlands, forests, and fields

Common in NC Piedmont, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Rough Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus retrofractus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus retrofractus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus dipsaciformis 030-01-033   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Dry sandy or rocky woodlands and fields

Common (uncommon in GA) (uncommon in NC Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Starburst Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Sedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus plukenetii   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus plukenetii   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus plukenetii 030-01-034   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy woodlands, thin soils of rock outcrops, and dry, disturbed areas

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Roundhead Flatsedge, Globe Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus echinatus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus echinatus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus ovularis 030-01-035   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Sandy woodlands, forests, fields, thin soils on outcrops, sand and gravel bars

Common (uncommon in GA Mountains, rare in Carolina Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Pineland Flatsedge, Pine-barren Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus retrorsus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus retrorsus var. retrorsus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus retrorsus var. retrorsus 030-01-036a   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Dry woodlands, forests, and rock outcrops

Common (uncommon in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Baldwin's Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus croceus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

(?) INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Cyperus croceus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus globulosus 030-01-036c   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, disturbed areas

Common (rare in Mountains)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Southeastern Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus filiculmis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Cyperus lupulinus ssp. lupulinus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus filiculmis 030-01-040   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other sandy or rocky woodlands, forests, and fields

Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Great Plains Flatsedge, Slender Nutsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus lupulinus +   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus lupulinus +   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus filiculmis 030-01-040?   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Look for it in dry sterile soils in fields and meadows

Common to rare, depending on variety

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Asiatic Greenhead Sedge, Pasture Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus brevifolioides   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Kyllinga gracillima   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Cyperus brevifolioides 030-01-042X   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: River sand bars, tidal marshes, tidal shores, moist soils of pastures and ditches

Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Non-native: east Asia, apparently

 


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Common Name: Variable Flatsedge, Smallflower Umbrella Sedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus difformis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus difformis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Rare

Non-native: Old World tropics

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Deep-rooted Sedge, Woodrush Flatsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Cyperus entrerianus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus entrerianus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Bottomland hardwood forests, coastal grasslands, marshes, vacant lots, disturbed areas

Common in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Non-native: temperate South America

 


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Common Name: Umbrella-plant

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Cyperus involucratus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Cyperus involucratus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Cultivated and persistent, also naturalizing in disturbed areas

Waif(s)

Non-native: Africa

 


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camera icon Common Name: Threeway Sedge

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Dulichium arundinaceum var. arundinaceum   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Dulichium arundinaceum   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dulichium arundinaceum 030-02-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Streambanks, marshes, bogs, ditches

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Horsetail Spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Eleocharis equisetoides   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis equisetoides   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis equisetoides 030-03-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Quiet waters of limesink (doline) ponds, natural lakes, borrow pits, ditches, artificial millponds

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Squarestem Spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Eleocharis quadrangulata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis quadrangulata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis quadrangulata 030-03-003   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Pools, marshes

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Blunt Spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eleocharis obtusa   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis obtusa   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis obtusa 030-03-005   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Ditches, marshes, disturbed wet areas

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Canada spikesedge, Bent spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eleocharis geniculata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis geniculata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis caribaea 030-03-008   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, moist disturbed areas

Rare

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

 


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speaker icon Common Name: Sand Spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Eleocharis montevidensis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis montevidensis   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis montevidensis 030-03-019   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Maritime wet grasslands, ponds, swales, ditches

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Viviparous Spikerush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eleocharis vivipara   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eleocharis vivipara   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eleocharis vivipara 030-03-020   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Coastal Plain ponds

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Baldwin's Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass

Weakley's Flora: (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): Eleocharis baldwinii 030-03-024   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs, pools, acid shores

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Broadleaf Whitetop Sedge, Giant Whitetop Sedge, White-bracted Sedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Rhynchospora latifolia   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhynchospora latifolia   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dichromena latifolia 030-04-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Wet pine savannas

Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in Carolinas)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Narrowleaf Whitetop Sedge, White-bracted Sedge, Starrush Whitetop Sedge

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Rhynchospora colorata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Rhynchospora colorata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Dichromena colorata 030-04-002   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, ditches, dune swales, calcareous glades, usually in places with some source of alkalinity (calcareous rocks, shell, brackish water)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Densetuft Hairsedge, Common Hairsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis capillaris ssp. capillaris   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis capillaris 030-06-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Thin soils on rock outcrops, especially granite domes and granite flatrocks (but also on mafic rocks, such as diabase), sandy soils, fields, bogs (in FL)

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Savannah Hairsedge, Capillary Hairsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis ciliatifolia   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis ciliatifolia var. ciliatifolia   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis ciliatifolia 030-06-002   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to wet sands of savannas, roadsides, disturbed areas

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Elliott's Hairsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis coarctata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis ciliatifolia var. coarctata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis ciliatifolia 030-06-002?   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Sandhills, usually associated with longleaf pine and wiregrass

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Ware's Hairsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis warei   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis warei   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis warei 030-06-003   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry pine flatwoods, dunes, Florida scrub

Uncommon in GA, rare in SC (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Sandy-field Hairsedge

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis stenophylla   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis stenophylla   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis stenophylla 030-06-004   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry pine savannas, Florida scrub, and disturbed sandy areas

Common in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, uncommon in NC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Old World Hairsedge, Water-grass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bulbostylis barbata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bulbostylis barbata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Bulbostylis barbata 030-06-005   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Sandy fields, other disturbed areas

Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (rare in Mountains & NC Piedmont)(uncommon elsewhere)

Non-native: Old World tropics

 


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camera icon Common Name: Marsh Fimbry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fimbristylis castanea   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fimbristylis castanea   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fimbristylis spadicea 030-07-002   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Brackish marshes and dune swales

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Carolina Fimbry

Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Fimbristylis caroliniana   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fimbristylis caroliniana   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Fimbristylis spadicea 030-07-002?   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Brackish or alkaline sands of marsh edges and dune swales, less typically in pine savannas or pine flatwoods

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Harper's Fimbry

Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Fimbristylis perpusilla   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fimbristylis perpusilla   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Drawdown zones of natural depression ponds or exposed banks of blackwater or brownwater rivers

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: ditch fimbry

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Fimbristylis schoenoides   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Fimbristylis schoenoides   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Disturbed wetlands

Uncommon in GA, rare in NC

Non-native: Asia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Deerhair Bulrush, Deergrass, Tufted Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Trichophorum cespitosum   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Trichophorum cespitosum   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus cespitosus var. callosus 030-08-001   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Cliffs receiving fog/cloud deposition and seepage, mostly at high elevations, over amphibolite, granite, gneiss, or schist, notably at Grandfather Mountain, Roan Mountain, Mount LeConte, Whiteside Mountain, and Chimney Rock

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Keeled Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Isolepis carinata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Isolepis carinata   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus koilolepis 030-08-002   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Moist soils adjacent to granitic flatrocks, seepage areas, ephemeral pools, moist sandy sites, low fields, ditches

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

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Olney Threesquare, chairmaker's bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Schoenoplectus americanus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schoenoplectus americanus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus olneyi 030-08-006   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Tidal freshwater to brackish marshes

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in Piedmont

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Common Threesquare, Chairmaker's Rush, Swordgrass

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schoenoplectus pungens var. pungens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schoenoplectus pungens var. pungens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus americanus 030-08-007   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Tidal marshes, other marshes, inland salt marshes, rocky river beds, wet meadows, lake edges, moist fields

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Softstem Bulrush, Great Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

(?) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus validus 030-08-009   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Tidal marshes, freshwater marshes, sedge meadows, streambeds, riverbeds, floodplain pools, calcareous fens

Common in Coastal Plain & Carolina Mountains (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Saltmarsh Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Bolboschoenus robustus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Bolboschoenus robustus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus robustus 030-08-011   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Brackish marshes; inland in saline glades and marshes

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon Common Name: Woodland Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Scirpus expansus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Scirpus expansus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus expansus 030-08-012   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs, fens, marshes, streambeds

Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Black Bulrush, Dark-green Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Scirpus atrovirens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Scirpus atrovirens   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus atrovirens 030-08-013   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, bogs, wet meadows

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in GA Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Georgia Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Scirpus georgianus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Scirpus georgianus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus atrovirens 030-08-013?   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, wet areas, ditches

Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Leafy Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Scirpus polyphyllus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Scirpus polyphyllus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus polyphyllus 030-08-014   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, floodplain forests, mountain bogs, seeps, fens

Common in Mountains & NC Piedmont, uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Woolgrass Bulrush, Marsh Bulrush, Woolly Bulrush

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Scirpus cyperinus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Scirpus cyperinus   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Scirpus cyperinus 030-08-015   FAMILY: Cyperaceae

 

Habitat: Marshes, ditches, beaver ponds, disturbed wet ground

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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"Almost two-thirds of the total vegetation of grasslands is protected within the soil.... If placed end to end, the roots and root hairs beneath a square yard of tallgrass can stretch 20 miles." — Douglas Chadwick, The American Prairie, Root of the Sky, National Geographic, October 1993