| Rhynchospora scutellata Griesbach |
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| Herbarium: |
University of West Alabama Herbarium (UWAL) |
| Family: | CYPERACEAE |
| Currently Accepted Name: | Rhynchospora scutellata Griesbach - Determined By: H. Horne, 2016 |
| Herbarium Name Used: | Rhynchospora scutellata Griesbach |
| Locality: | USA. Alabama. Mobile: Along the north side of Girby Road, approximately 150 feet east of the entrance to the Mobile County Environmental Studies Center. The cleared roadside corridor borders a large forested wetland system (floodplain of Campground Branch). A maintained sewer line corridor runs north through the bottomland forest at this location. |
| Description: | Plants tall (1.0-1.5 m in hieght) and robust like R. corniculata; cespitose and non-rhizomatous. Associated with Scirpus cyperinus and Sagittaria sp. Spikelets 6-7 mm and clustered somewhat close together. Style approximately 3 mm long and sulcate. Common |
| Habitat: | In heavily-silted wetland under maintained powerline (& sewer) corridor. |
| Collector: | Horne, Howard E. 1444 |
| Date: | 13 Jun 2011 |
| Accession No: | UWAL0008621 |
| Image: | UWAL0008621.jpg |
| Plant Atlas Link: | Plant Atlas Citation |
| Submission Info: | Submitted by admin on 19 Dec 2021 |