Rhynchospora solitaria R.M. Harper. Autumn Beaksedge. Hab: Wet, sandy/peaty depressions. Dist: Known from a few sites in the Gulf Coastal Plain of GA (Colquitt, Irwin, Tift, and Turner counties) (Sorrie 1998b) and SC (Berkeley County) (McMillan & Porcher 2005).
ID notes: Rhynchospora solitaria resembles a delicate R. ciliaris; its distinctiveness is well described in Bridges & Orzell (1992). It should be sought in seepage bogs in the Fall-line Sandhills of the Carolinas and in wet pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy: = FNA23, GW1, K1, K3, K4, Gale (1944), McMillan (2007); = n/a – RAB; = Rynchospora solitaria – S
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