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§1 Plant

Scleria ciliata Michx. var. ciliata

vernacular fringed nutrush — variety · Cyperaceae


USDA
SCCIC
GBIF
7227055
Rank
variety
fringed nutrush (Scleria ciliata var. ciliata)
Platephotograph · Jay HornCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Scleria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
§2b

County-level range

· 75 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 75 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 75 counties across 6 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N
Kansas view state ↗ 6 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 6 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 30 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 24 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SCCIC ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7227055 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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