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Internal ID UUID643ff8edd6ec1973917329
Scientific name Eleocharis rostellata
Authority (Torr.) Torr.
First published in Fl. New York 2: 347 (1843)

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Eleocharis rostellata is a species of spikesedge known for its wide distribution across North America, Mexico, Guatemala, the West Indies, and Argentina. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb that grows up to 1.2 meters tall with spongy, compressible stems. The inflorescence is a single spikelet up to 2 centimeters long made up of many tiny flowers covered in light brown, sometimes purple-spotted bracts. It is found in many types of wetland habitat, especially saline and alkaline water bodies such as hot springs, fens, and salt marshes.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Trichophyllum rostellatum Farw. Mich. Acad. Sci. Rep. 1917, xix. 253.
Eleocharis rostellata var. congdonii Jeps. Fl. Calif. : 196 (1922)
Eleocharis rostellata var. occidentalis S.Watson Bot. California 2: 222 (1880)
Scirpus rostellatus Torr. Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 3: 318 (1836)
Trichophyllum rostellatum (Torr.) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 19: 253 1917
Eleocharis rostellata f. occidentalis (S.Watson) Beetle Publ. Univ. Wyoming 5: 22 (1938)

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Language Common/alternative name
English beaked spikerush
English walking sedge
English beaked spike rush

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- Native
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Nebraska
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Delaware
      • Florida
      • Louisiana
      • Maryland
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Western Canada
      • British Columbia
  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Bermuda
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Haiti
      • Puerto Rico
    • Central America
      • Guatemala
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northwest

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000405929
Florida Plant Atlas 4013
Flora of Alabama 4105
Canadensys 5256
USDA Plants ELRO2
Tropicos 9903196
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:307079-1
The Plant List kew-242834
Open Tree Of Life 612182
NCBI Taxonomy 110303
Nature Serve 2.132387
IUCN Red List 64311314
IPNI 307079-1
iNaturalist 59065
GBIF 2717550
Freebase /m/063_clj
WisFlora 3492
FEIS plants/graminoid/eleros
EPPO ELORO
EOL 1120120
Calflora (Californian flora) 2922
USDA GRIN 448134
Wikipedia Eleocharis_rostellata

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Diet composition analysis provides new management insights for a highly specialized endangered small mammal Castle ST, Allan N, Clifford D, Aylward CM, Ramsey J, Fascetti AJ, Pesapane R, Roy A, Statham M, Sacks B, Foley J PLoS One 02-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7531790
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240136
PMID:33007017
Evaluation of Plot-Scale Methods for Assessing and Monitoring Salt Marsh Vegetation Composition and Cover Raposa KB, Kutcher TE, Ferguson W, McKinney RA, Miller K, Wigand C Northeast Nat (Steuben) 06-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC7863630
doi:10.1656/045.027.0113
PMID:33551633
A review of active hot-spring analogues of Rhynie: environments, habitats and ecosystems Channing A Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 18-Dec-2017
PMCID:PMC5745326
doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0490
PMID:29254955

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