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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Cyperaceae
Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla
Torrey's bulrush, Torrey's three-square bulrush
Schoenoplectus: Greek a 'rush leek' ' plecto for "plaited, twisted"
schoenos for "rush or reed"
torreyi: for Dr. John Torrey (1796-1873), co-author with Asa Gray of The Flora of North America
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, to 5' tall, semi-aquatic sedge; stems triangular; soft rhizomes |
| Flower: | inflorescence tight clustered spikelet from side of bract at stem top, spikelet of sharp-pointed yellow-brown scales |
| Fruit: | nutlet, with 2 bristles, blunt beak |
| Leaf: | merely short sheaths at stem base |
| Habitat: | wet; marshes shores in water 2'-3' deep |
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