(Scirpus atrovirens)
Conservation • Wetland • Description • Habitat • Biology • Use • Distribution • Taxonomy
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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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Height |
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20″ to 60″ |
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Habitat |
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Wet to moist. Wet meadows and prairies, marshes, shores, streambanks. floodplain woodland openings, roadside ditches. Full to partial sun. |
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Biology |
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Maturing |
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Mid-July through late September |
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Occurrence |
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Common and widepread |
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Taxonomy |
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Kingdom | Plantae (green algae and land plants) | ||
Subkingdom | Viridiplantae (green plants) | ||
Infrakingdom | Streptophyta (land plants and green algae) | ||
Superdivision | Embryophyta (land plants) | ||
Division | Tracheophyta (vascular plants) | ||
Subdivision | Spermatophytina (seed plants) | ||
Class | Liliopsida (monocots) | ||
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Poales (grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies) | ||
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Cyperaceae (sedges) | ||
Subfamily | Cyperoideae | ||
Tribe | Scirpeae | ||
Genus |
Scirpus (scirpus bulrushes) | ||
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Common Names |
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black bulrush dark green bulrush dark-green bulrush green bulrush |
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Published on Jul 19, 2015 |
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