dark green bulrush
Scirpus atrovirens
Summary 6
Scirpus atrovirens, known as dark-green bulrush, is a perennial sedge native to wetlands of eastern Canada and the United States. It is sometimes called dark green bulsedge, black bulrush, or green bulrush
It was first formally named by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1809.
Scirpus atrovirens grows in a wide variety of wetland habitats, typically in sunny areas rather than shady. It can be found in wet meadows and shrubby thickets, openings in swamps, marshes, shorelines, as well as roadside ditches. The plant can grow up to five feet tall, and thrives in hardiness zones 3–9.
It is closely related to Scirpus hattorianus and Scirpus georgianus, with mature fruits necessary for accurate identification.
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- Adapted by Tom Pollard from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scirpus_atrovirens
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
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- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Go Botany
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
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- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- VASCAN by Canadensys
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