Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth

Locations ofScirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth in Virginia

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Family
Cyperaceae
Botanical Name
Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth
Common Name
Woolgrass
Synonym(s)
Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth var. pelius Fernald
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth
Comments
A highly variable species. Slender plants with dark brown to blackish involucral sheaths and smaller inflorescences which occur in boggy habitats in the mountains may be recognized as var. pelius Fernald.
Habitat
Freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes, tidal swamps, alluvial swamps (particularly in seasonally flooded sloughs), maritime swamps, interdune swales and ponds, depression swamps and ponds, bogs, fens, seeps, impoundments, beaver wetlands, ditches, wet meadows, and other wet disturbed habitats. Frequent to common throughout.
Native Status
Native

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