Scirpus longii

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Scirpus longii is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name Long's bulrush. It is native to eastern North America, where it is limited to the Atlantic coastal plain.[1]

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Scirpus longii
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Genus: Scirpus
Species:
S. longii
Binomial name
Scirpus longii
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This perennial plant grows from a large rhizome and forms clumps of stems up to 1.5 meters tall. It flowers rarely, any time between May and August. The inflorescence is an open cyme of spikelets up to about a centimeter long.[1][2]

This species grows in wetlands such as river banks and bogs.[3]

Conservation status in the United States

It is listed a special concern and believed extirpated in Connecticut,[4] as threatened in Maine and Massachusetts, and as endangered in New Jersey and Rhode Island.[5]

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