Eleocharis compressa Sull.
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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 - Stems slender, compressed and often twisted, with 9–14 vascular bundles; scales lance-ovate, prolonged into a scarious acuminate tip, often bifid or lacerate in age; achene golden to brown, 1–1.5 mm; tubercle depressed to rounded-conic; 2n=18, 20, 24, 36; otherwise much like no. 14 [Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult.]. Marshes and shores; Ont. to Sask., s. to Ga. and Tex. (E. acuminata) Passes into E. tenuis var. borealis.