Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth
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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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