Rhynchospora miliacea (Lam.) Gray
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Cyperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stout, erect, commonly 1 m or more, loosely rhizomatous, with 1–few stems together; lvs numerous, flat, to 1 cm wide; infl of 4–8 often overlapping cymes, each decompound, with much elongate, widely divaricate or even reflexed, capillary branches, each terminating in a single ovoid spikelet 3–4 mm, the scales soon falling and exposing the 3–10 persistent achenes; bristles 6, fragile, antrorsely barbellate, surpassing the tubercle; achenes pale brown, obovate, 0.9–1.2 mm, nearly or quite as wide, transversely ridged; tubercle depressed-conic, 0.2–0.3 mm. Swamps on the coastal plain; se. Va. to Fla., La., and the W.I.