Scirpus cyperinus - Wikipedia
WEBScirpus cyperinus, commonly known as woolgrass, is an emergent wetland herb that is native to the eastern United States and eastern Canada. [2] Other common names include cottongrass bulrush[1] and brown woolly sedge. [3] Woolgrass is not a true grass, despite its common name; it is a type of bulrush (Scirpus).
Carex pellita (Woolly Sedge) - Minnesota Wildflowers
WEBCarex pellita, formerly known as C. lanuginosa, is a common sedge of wet places. It is a somewhat variable species, particularly in the color of perigynia, from pale green to yellowish to purplish, finally drying to dull brown.
Wool Grass (Scirpus cyperinus) - Illinois Wildflowers
WEBDescription: This perennial sedge consists of a tuft of low sterile shoots, from which arises one or more taller fertile shoots. The fertile shoots are leafy culms with terminal inflorescences; they are about 3-5' tall.
Scirpus cyperinus - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
WEBScirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent aquatic perennial of the sedge family that grows in dense slowly-spreading tussocks of arching basal green leaves with upright flowering stems (culms) rising to 3-5’ tall.
Scirpus cyperinus (Woolgrass) - Minnesota Wildflowers
WEBScirpus cyperinus, the most common of the 4, is most easily distinguished by the spikelets clustered in groups of (usually) 3 to 7 or more. The other 3 species have spikelets all or mostly single, occasionally paired.
Carex pellita — woolly sedge - Go Botany
WEBWoolly sedge is widely distributed and abundant, occuring in marshes, roadsides, meadows and shorelines, especially where the soil in high in calcium. As its common name suggests, the perigynia are densely pubescent.
Scirpus cyperinus — common woolsedge, woolgrass - Go Botany
WEBCommon woolsedge is a late-ripening species whose name derives from the perianth bristles that give the inflorescence a fuzzy or wooly appearance. The Ojibwa used common woodsedge for weaving bags and mats, and the Potawatomi used the …
Scirpus cyperinus (Wool Grass) - Gardenia
WEBScirpus cyperinus (Wool Grass) is an emergent aquatic perennial forming a dense tuft of arching basal green leaves and erect stems (culms). Each culm has 5-10 ascending to spreading leaf blades, and is topped in summer by a compound umbel, 4-6 in. long (10-15 cm), of many spikelets on branching rays. The spikelets become reddish brown and …
Scirpus cyperinus (woolgrass) | Izel Native Plants - IzelPlants.com
WEBScirpus cyperinus is an ecologically valuable Sedge, albeit not one with the most attractive foliage of the family. With an open and rather unkempt habit, it really stands out aesthetically late summer when the bristly achenes (a type of seed) mature into large wooly clusters to which it owes its common name.
Woolly Sedge - Calscape
WEBCarex pellita is a species of sedge known by the common name woolly sedge. It is native to much of North America, including most of the United States and southern Canada. It grows in wet and dry areas in a number of habitat types, including disturbed areas such as ditches and roadsides.
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