Scirpus heterochaetus Chase

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Cyperaceae

• Scientific Name

  Scirpus heterochaetus Chase

• Description

  Species Description - Much like S. acutus; stems hard but more slender; infl notably looser and laxer, most or all of the spikelets individually pedicellate; spikes light to medium brown, the scales with short, red-brown striolae on a usually tawny background; most or all of the fls tricarpellate, the style trifid, the achene unequally trigonous; 2n=38. Margins of freshwater lakes and streams; Mass. and Que., w. to Wash. and Oreg., and s. in the plains region to Okla. and n. Tex. Not common. Fr June–Aug. (Schoenoplectus h.)

• Common Names

  slender bulrush