Flora of North America species comparison

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Phyllospadix scouleri

Scouler's surf-grass
Habit Herbs; nodes with 2 rows of 3–5 roots.
Leaves

sheath 4–35 cm, margins not overlapping;

blade to 2 m × 1–4 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to truncate or rarely slightly notched;

veins 3.
Inflorescences

peduncles 11–60 × 1–2 mm; staminate bract 4–5.5 × 2–3 mm; pistillate bract 4–8 × 1.5–3 mm, base not narrowed, apex truncate to acute.
Fruits

4–5 × 5.5 mm.
Generative

shoots 0.2–11 cm, nodes 1–2, proximal node when present with 1 leaf, sterile, distal node with 1 leaf and 1(–2) spathes.

Phyllospadix scouleri
Phenology Flowering and fruiting late spring and summer.
Habitat Intertidal and upper part of sublittoral
Elevation -2 m (-0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; OR; WA; BC; Mexico (in Baja California)
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Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Zosteraceae > Phyllospadix
Sibling taxa
P. serrulatus, P. torreyi
Name authority Hooker: Flora Boreali-Americana 2: 171. (1838)
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