MatBio: GRASSES, SEDGES & RUSHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Poorland Flatsedge 1
Cyperus compressus
Baldwin's Flatsedge 1
Cyperus croceus
Swamp Flatsedge 2
Cyperus distinctus
Yellow Nutgrass 3
Cyperus esculentus
Haspan Flatsedge 1
Cyperus haspan
Ricefield Flatsedge 1
Cyperus iria
Epiphytic Flatsedge 4
Cyperus lanceolatus
Fragrant Flatsedge 5
Cyperus odoratus
Manyspike Flatsedge 6
Cyperus polystachyos
Pinebarren Flatsedge 6
Cyperus retrorsus
Nutgrass 7
Cyperus rotundus
Strawcolored Flatsedge 8
Cyperus strigosus
Tropical Flatsedge 9
Cyperus surinamensis
Fourangle Flatsedge 4
Cyperus tetragonus
Green Flatsedge 4
Cyperus virens

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) "Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc.", some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 2. (c) Tom Potterfield, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) David Lawrence, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 4. (c) Ingrid P. Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 5. (c) Colaspidae, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 6. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 7. (c) Forest & Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 8. (c) Anita, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 9. (c) "ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, TX, Atascosa Co. .", some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)