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Cyperaceae
Eleocharis

not marked as a favorite taxon Eleocharis elongata Chapman. Phenology: Jul-Aug. Habitat: Quiet waters of limesink (doline) ponds, Everglades sawgrass sloughs. Distribution: Se. North Carolina south to Florida, west to s. Alabama, s. Mississippi, and Texas (Sorrie & Leonard 1999); Jamaica; Mexico, Central America, South America.

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Subgenus: Limnochloa. Section: Limnochloa.

ID notes: Submersed plants of E. elongata can often produce flaccid, filiform culms with internally incomplete transverse septae and sometimes whorls of slender branches. At this stage it is virtually indistinguishable from E. robbinsii, which it sometimes grows with, although E. elongata tends to have fresh stems with rounder culms.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = ETx1, FNA23, GW1, K1, K4, NS, POWO, S, WH3, Angelo, Rosen, & Lange (2020); = n/a — RAB. Basionym: Eleocharis elongata Chapman 1860

Links to other floras: = Eleocharis elongata - FNA23

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

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