Rhynchospora croatanensis LeBlond & P.D. McMillan. Common name: Croatan Beaksedge. Habitat: Wet pine savanna and pocosin ecotone, known from a single spodosol savanna site in Croatan National Forest, and growing with Ctenium aromaticum, Pinguicula caerulea, Sarracenia flava, Dionaea muscipula, Zenobia pulverulenta, Polygala ramosa, and Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare. Distribution: So far as is known, restricted to the outer Coastal Plain of NC.
ID notes: Plants may mature by mid-spring, and are very similar in habit to R. rariflora.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = McMillan & LeBlond (2024a) in Weakley et al (2024a); = n/a — FNA23, K4, NS, POWO, RAB, S, S13; = Rhynchospora species 2 — NSProv, McMillan (2007). Basionym: Rhynchospora croatanensis LeBlond & P.D.McMillan 2024
Links to other floras: = n/a - FNA23
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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