Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla var. pungens
Detail
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Botanical Name
- Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla var. pungens
- Common Name
- Common Threesquare, Chairmaker's Rush
- Synonym(s)
- Scirpus pungens Vahl; Scirpus americanus Pers. (misapplied)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Schoenoplectus pungens (Vahl) Palla var. pungens
- Comments
- Three varieties are sometimes recognized; only var. pungens occurs in Virginia.
- Habitat
- Freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes, high-energy intertidal shores, tidal swamps, interdune swales and ponds, calcareous fens and spring marshes, wet meadows, and rocky or gravelly river shores and bars; also in rare montane (Ridge and Valley) salt marshes developed in seasonally flooded basins over Mississipian-age salt deposits at Saltville, Smyth County. Frequent to locally common in the maritime and estuarine zones of the Coastal Plain; infrequent but widely distributed elsewhere.
- Native Status
- Native
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