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  - Division - Flowering Plants - Anthophyta
    - Class - Monocots - Monocotyledoneae
      - Order - Grasses/Sedges - Cyperales
        
        Family - Sedges - Cyperaceae
        
        Species - Bearded Flatsedge - Cyperus squarrosus

Bearded Flatsedge - Cyperus squarrosus

Other Names: Cyperus aristatus

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Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR

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C-value: 4

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General Description

Caespitose annual. Stems ascending to erect, 1–5 cm. Leaves basal, 0.5–2 mm wide, mostly flat. Inflorescence of hemispheric to obovoid spikes of sessile or subsessile spikelets. Spikelets flattened, 3–8 mm long. Scales long-acuminate, light brown, ca. 1.5 mm long, 7- to 9-veined with long spreading to reflexed tips. Flowers: stamen 1; style 3-branched. Achene narrowly obovate, 3-sided, brown, 0.5–1 mm long (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range

Present

Range Comments

Throughout temperate and tropical North America, cosmopolitan (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 5

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Relative Density

Recency

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)

Habitat

Sandy or gravelly, vernally-flooded soil along rivers; plains, valleys (Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

References

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- Lesica, P., M. T. Lavin, and P. F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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- Elbert Little's Atlas of United State's Trees
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Citation for data on this website:
Bearded Flatsedge — Cyperus squarrosus. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on August 18, 2018, from http://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PMCYP064B0