Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Fimbristylis perpusilla
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
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The spikelets in the genus Fimbristylis resemble tiny pinecones. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fimbristylis perpusilla
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fimbristylis perpusilla
COMMON NAME:
Harper's Fimbry
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August Marlboro County SC
Plants diminuitive; leaf blades < 1mm wide; inflorescence bracts 1-2 cm long, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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August Marlboro County SC
Typically occurs on banks exposed in summer by falling water levels, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Fimbristylis perpusilla
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fimbristylis perpusilla
FAMILY
Cyperaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Fimbristylis perpusilla
4364
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Habitat: Drawdown zones of natural depression ponds or exposed banks of blackwater or brownwater rivers. The species characteristically occurs on dry to moist banks exposed in summer by falling water levels, often with other diminutive annuals, such as Cyperus subsquarrosus, Edrastima uniflora, Juncus repens, Lindernia dubia, Eleocharis baldwinii, and Eragrostis hypnoides. At known locations it does not appear every year; presumably it is present in a seedbank which germinates only under favorable hydrologic (and other?) conditions, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Achene
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