dark green bulrush
(Scirpus atrovirens)
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Conservation Status |
IUCN Red List |
not listed |
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NatureServe |
N5? - Secure
SNR - Unranked |
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Minnesota |
not listed |
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Wetland
Indicator
Status |
Great Plains |
OBL - Obligate wetland |
Midwest |
OBL - Obligate wetland |
Northcentral & Northeast |
OBL - Obligate wetland |
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Nativity |
Native |
Occurrence |
Common and widepread |
Habitat |
Wet to moist. Wet meadows and prairies, marshes, shores, streambanks. floodplain woodland openings, roadside ditches. Full to partial sun. |
Flowering |
June to August |
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Height |
20″ to 60″ |
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Identification |
The stems are rounded triangular. Lower leaf sheaths are brown or green, not tinged with red. Lower leaf sheaths and the base of lower leaves have conspicuous, irregularly placed cross lines (septations). They appear as very short dark green walls connecting 2 or 3 adjacent veins.
Each spike is a more or less round, densely crowded cluster of 3 to 18 spikelets. |
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Similar
Species |
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Distribution |
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Sources: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 28, 29. |
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Comments |
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Taxonomy |
Family: |
Cyperaceae (sedge) |
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Subfamily: |
Cyperoideae |
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Tribe: |
Scirpeae |
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Synonyms |
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Common
Names |
black bulrush
dark green bulrush
dark-green bulrush
green bulrush |
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