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Bolboschoenus novae angliae

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Cyperaceae

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Poales

Genus
  
Bolboschoenus

Similar
  
Bolboschoenus robustus, Bolboschoenus, Scirpus fluviatilis, Bolboschoenus maritimus

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae, the New England bulrush, is a plant species found along the Atlantic seacoast of the United States from Alabama to Maine (although there are no records of the plant from South Carolina, and reports from Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina remain unconfirmed). It grows in brackish and salt-water marshes and estuaries along the coast.

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae is a perennial herb up to 150 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Culms are triangular in cross-section. Flowers and fruits are borne in spikelets at the tip of the culm. Achenes are variable in shape, sometimes compressed, sometimes trigonous, the two shapes sometimes present on the same plant.

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Bolboschoenus novae-angliae Wikipedia