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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhynchospora macra
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
R. macra is a robust southern relative of R. alba. Like R. alba and R. pallida, it has scales which are at first bright white, "fading" in age to a medium tan or light brown. These three species are thus superficially most distinctive (from other Rhynchospora) in June, July, and August. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
Learn more from Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora macra
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23 (2002)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rynchospora macra
COMMON NAME:
Southern White Beaksedge
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rhynchospora macra
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rhynchospora macra
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae) of South Carolina and the Eastern United States (McMillan, 2007)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 23
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Rhynchospora macra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Rynchospora macra
4871
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial
Habitat: Sphagnum bogs in frequently-burned streamhead pocosins, sandhill seepage bogs, highly acid, quaking peat bogs, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], not rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets pale brown to nearly white
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
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