Bolboschoenus novae-angliae
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Bolboschoenus novae-angliae, the New England bulrush,[3] is a plant species found along the Atlantic seacoast of the United States from Alabama to Maine (although there are no records of the plant from South Carolina, and reports from Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina remain unconfirmed). It grows in brackish and salt-water marshes and estuaries along the coast. [4][5]
Bolboschoenus novae-angliae is a perennial herb up to 150 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Culms are triangular in cross-section. Flowers and fruits are borne in spikelets at the tip of the culm. Achenes are variable in shape, sometimes compressed, sometimes trigonous, the two shapes sometimes present on the same plant.[4][6][7][8][9][10]
References
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Schoenoplectus novae-angliae". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
- ^ a b Flora of North America v 23 p 43., Bolboschoenus novae-angliae
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map, Schoenoplectus novae-angliae
- ^ Browning, J., K. D. Gordon-Gray & S. G. Smith. 1995. Achene structure and taxonomy of North American Bolboschoenus (Cyperaceae). Brittonia 47(4): 433–445.
- ^ Smith, Stanley Galen. 1995. Brittonia 47(4): 434.
- ^ Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1898. Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States 3: 509, f. 627a.
- ^ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. 1906. Rhodora 8(92): 163.
- ^ Beetle, Alan Ackerman. 1942. American Journal of Botany 29(1): 87.
