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Internal ID UUID643ff8eb771b5118155867
Scientific name Eleocharis quadrangulata
Authority (Michx.) Roem. & Schult.
First published in Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 155 (1817)

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Eleocharis quadrangulata is a species of spikesedge native to eastern and central North America, with additional populations in California, Oregon, and west-central Mexico. It grows in and around freshwater in lakes, ponds, and other bodies of water. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing one half to one meter in height, with a spongy, compressible stem that is a few millimeters wide and sharply four-angled. The inflorescence is a single spikelet 1.5 to 7.5 centimeters long, made up of several flowers covered in light brown bracts.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Limnochloa quadrangulata Nees Linnaea 9: 294 (1834)
Scirpus quadrangulatus Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 30 (1803)
Eleocharis quadrangulata var. crassior Fernald Rhodora 37: 393 (1935)
Eleocharis quadrangulata var. typica Fernald Rhodora 37: 393 (1935)

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English squarestem spikerush

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Kansas
      • Missouri
      • Oklahoma
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
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      • Michigan
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • West Virginia
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000405839
Florida Plant Atlas 530
Flora of Alabama 4102
Canadensys 5253
USDA Plants ELQU
Tropicos 9901908
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77146714-1
The Plant List kew-242810
Open Tree Of Life 934914
NCBI Taxonomy 529437
Nature Serve 2.153969
IPNI 77146714-1
iNaturalist 76784
GBIF 2717631
Freebase /m/0641h1v
WisFlora 7264
EPPO ELOQU
EOL 1120133
Calflora (Californian flora) 2920
USDA GRIN 451301
Wikipedia Eleocharis_quadrangulata

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Rapid increases in bat activity and diversity after wetland construction in an urban ecosystem Parker KA Jr, Springall BT, Garshong RA, Malachi AN, Dorn LE, Costa-Terryll A, Mathis RA, Lewis AN, MacCheyne CL, Davis TT, Rice AD, Varh NY, Li H, Schug MD, Kalcounis-Rueppell MC Wetlands (Wilmington) 28-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6764773
PMID:31564763
Influences of Coal Ash Leachates and Emergent Macrophytes on Water Quality in Wetland Microcosms Olson LH, Misenheimer JC, Nelson CM, Bradham KD, Richardson CJ Water Air Soil Pollut 01-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC6261303
doi:10.1007/s11270-017-3520-4
PMID:30505039

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