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§1 Plant
Eleocharis rostellata (Torr.) Torr.
vernacular beaked spikerush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eleocharis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b
County-level range
· 212 counties across 32 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 212 counties across 32 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Antrim 26009
- Bay 26017
- Calhoun 26025
- Cass 26027
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Emmet 26047
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Gratiot 26057
- Huron 26063
- Ionia 26067
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Manistee 26101
- Oakland 26125
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
Minnesota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bailey 48017
- Bandera 48019
- Blanco 48031
- Briscoe 48045
- Burnet 48053
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- DeWitt 48123
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hutchinson 48233
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Lamb 48279
- Lubbock 48303
- Mason 48319
- Medina 48325
- Oldham 48359
- Randall 48381
- Real 48385
- Roberts 48393
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Wheeler 48483
- Winkler 48495
Utah view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 2 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELRO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2717550 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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