Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

CYPERACEAE

- Sedge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

Nomencl. ref.: Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 2: 151. 1817 [Nov 1817]
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Common spikerush

English name: common spike-rush

English name: creeping spike-rush

Spanish name: junquillo

French name: eleocharis des marais

Italian name: Giunchina comune

German name: gewöhnliche Sumpfsimse

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. australis Nees
2) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. major Sonder
3) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. palustris
4) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. vigens L.H. Bailey

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Eleocharis
Species:

Page counter: 1883 ( AVG: 221.97 / 290.989 )

Gallery:

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

Eleocharis palustris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Caldararo

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Eleocharis palustris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Duino Aurisina, località Villaggio del Pescatore, prato ruderalizzato nei pressi del porticciolo a nord dell'abitato., TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Eleocharis palustris
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Doberdò, lago., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Eleocharis palustris
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Caldararo

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Eleocharis palustris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 314.

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Caldararo

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Eleocharis palustris
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Caldararo

Eleocharis palustris
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Eleocharis palustris
Credit: Photo by Franco Caldararo

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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Map for Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. australis Nees [96]
2) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. major Sonder [180]
3) Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult. var. palustris [324]
4) Eleocharis parvula (Roem. & Schult.) Link ex Bluff, Nees & Schauer var. coloradoensis (Britton) Beetle [133]
5) Eleocharis pauciflora (Lightf.) Link var. bernardina (Munz & I.M. Johnst.) Svens. [140]
6) Eleocharis praticola Britton [136]
7) Eleocharis quinqueflora (Hartmann) O. Schwarz ssp. suksdorfiana (P. Beauv.) Hultén [97]
8) Eleocharis shaferi Britton [151]
9) Eleocharis thermalis Rydb. [131]
10) Elephantella groenlandica (Retz.) Rydb. [135]

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