RED-BASED SPIKESEDGE
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Eleocharis erythropoda Steud.
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| Russell County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: To 28 inches |
| Family: Cyperaceae - Sedge Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August, September |
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| Also Called: | | Bald spikerush. | | Culms: | | Erect, slender, round in cross-section, reddish-purple at base. | | Leaves: | | Small bladeless sheaths near base of culm, red or dark brown. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikelet, solitary, terminal, lance-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped, 1/5 to 7/10 inch long, many-flowered; tip pointed. | | Flowers: | | Perfect; fertile scales ovate to lanceolate, closely appressed, brown or straw-colored with light midrib; margins transparent; tips blunt; lowest scale sterile, completely encircling culm; bristles 0-4, as long as achenes; styles 2-cleft. | | Fruits: | | Achene, tiny, narrowly egg-shaped, 2-sided, yellow, becoming dark brown with age, 1-seeded. | | Habitat: | | Margins of streams and ponds, lake shores, ditches, marshy meadows, and wet prairies; usually standing in water. | | Distribution: | | Throughout Kansas. | | Comments: | | Red-based spikesedge has reddish rhizomes and stolons. |
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| Red-based spikesedge |  | | 169 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
| | Red-based spikesedge inflorescence |  | | 70 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
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| | Red-based spikesedge scales |  | | 72 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
| | Red-based spikesedge roots |  | | 131 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
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