Index / Search / Eleocharis tenuis var. tenuis
§1 Plant
Eleocharis tenuis (Willd.) Schult. var. tenuis
vernacular slender spikerush — variety · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eleocharis
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 154 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 154 counties across 12 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Union 42119
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 14 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELTET ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7227012 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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