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Trichophorum clintonii

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(Redirected from Clinton's bulrush) Species of flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae

Trichophorum clintonii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Trichophorum
Species: T. clintonii
Binomial name
Trichophorum clintonii
(A. Gray) S.G. Sm
Synonyms
  • Baeothryon clintonii (A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
  • Scirpus clintonii A. Gray

Trichophorum clintonii, the Clinton's bulrush, is a plant species native to Canada and the northeastern United States. It has been reported from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, Maine, New York State, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Trichophorum clintonii is a perennial herb up to 40 centimeters (16 in) tall, forming dense clumps but without rhizomes. Culms are triangular in cross-section. Leaves are up to 25 centimeters (9.8 in) long. The inflorescences is one brown spikelet with three to six flowers. Achenes are flattened triangles about 2 millimeters (0.079 in) long.

References

  1. Tropicos
  2. NRCS. "Trichophorum clintonii". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. ^ Flora of North America v 23 p 31, Trichophorum clintonii
  4. Smith, Stanley Galen. 1995. Novon 5(1): 102.
  5. Löve, Áskell & Löve, Doris Benta Maria. 1965. University of Colorado Studies : Series in Biology 17: 14.
  6. Gray, Asa. 1864. American Journal of Science, and Arts, ser. 2, 38(113): 290.
Taxon identifiers
Trichophorum clintonii
Scirpus clintonii
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