Trichophorum planifolium |
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bashful bulrush, bashful clubsedge |
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Habit | Plants densely cespitose; rhizomes absent. |
Culms | trigonous, 10–40 cm, scabrous proximal to inflorescence. |
Leaves | basal sheaths brown; distal leaf sheaths concave at mouth; blades 10–400 × 0.8–2 mm, equaling or exceeding culms at flowering and fruiting. |
Inflorescences | spikelets 3–8-flowered, 4.1–5.2 × 1.5–2.1 mm; bracts equaling spikelets, 3.7–6 mm, apex awned, awn to 3 mm. |
Spikelets | scales orange-brown to dark brown, midribs excurrent, apex mucronate. |
Flowers | perianth bristles 3–6, brown, terete, nearly equaling achenes, scabrous; anthers 1–1.5 mm. |
Achenes | compressed trigonous, 1.5–2 × 0.7–1.1 mm. |
Trichophorum planifolium |
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Phenology | Fruiting summer (Jun–Jul). |
Habitat | Mesic to dry hardwood forests, usually with oak component, often on hillsides |
Elevation | 50–900 m (200–3000 ft) |
Distribution |
CT; DC; DE; IL; MA; MD; MO; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; VA; VT; WV; ON
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Source | FNA vol. 23, p. 31. |
Parent taxa | Cyperaceae > Trichophorum |
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Synonyms | Isolepis planifolia, Baeothryon planifolium, Baeothryon verecundum, Eleocharis planifolia, Scirpus planifolius, Scirpus verecundus |
Name authority | (Sprengel) Palla: Oesterr. Bot. Z. 63: 402. (1913) |
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