Index / Search / Scheuchzeria palustris ssp. americana

§1 Plant

Scheuchzeria palustris L. ssp. americana (Fernald) Hultén

vernacular rannoch-rush — subspecies · Scheuchzeriaceae


USDA
SCPAA3
GBIF
2865260 syn.
Rank
subspecies
rannoch-rush (Scheuchzeria palustris ssp. americana)
Platephotograph · Jukka JantunenCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Scheuchzeriaceae F. Rudolphi
Genus
Scheuchzeria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 198 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 198 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 198 counties across 17 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 3 N
Idaho view state ↗ 5 N
Illinois view state ↗ 4 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 14 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N
Michigan view state ↗ 31 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 N
New York view state ↗ 29 N
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N
Oregon view state ↗ 6 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 N
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 27 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SCPAA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2865260 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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