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The records of Cyperus aggregatus in New Jersey, Oregon, and Pennsylvania represent introductions from ballast.
The closely related Mexican and Central American Cyperus regiomontanus Britton has been collected once as an adventive or waif in southern California. It is distinguished from C. aggregatus by its silvery green, subulate-lanceolate spikelets and achenes that are only 0.4–0.6 mm wide.
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Description
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Herbs, perennial, cespitose, rhizomatous. Culms trigonous, 20–100 cm × 0.8–2.5 mm, glabrous. Leaves 5–10, V-shaped to flanged V-shaped, 10–70(–90) cm × 2–7 mm, margins and midribs scabridulous or glabrous. Inflorescences: spikes 1(–6), densely cylindric, 6–30 × 5–11 mm; rays 3–12, 0.4–5(–7) cm; rays and rachis glabrous; usually only 1–2 spikes of inflorescence on elongate rays, other spikes sessile or nearly so; bracts 4–7, horizontal to slightly ascending, 1–16 cm × 0.5–4 mm; rachilla deciduous, wings persistent, 0.5 mm wide. Spikelets 20–80, ellipsoid, roughly quadrangular, 3–5 × 1–1.4 mm; floral scales 1–2(–4), appressed, stramineous to golden brown, often red-speckled, medially greenish, 9-ribbed, elliptic to ovate, 2.4–3.4 × 1.8–2.6 mm, apex obtuse. Flowers: anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; styles 0.7–1.1 mm; stigmas 1.4–2.1 mm. Achenes dark brown to reddish brown, sessile, broadly ellipsoid, 1.8–2.1 × 0.8–1 mm, apex apiculate, surfaces glabrous to finely puncticulate.
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Distribution
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Ariz., La., Miss., N.J., N.Mex., Oreg., Pa., Tex.; Mexico; Central America; South America; introduced, Australia.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Fruiting mid summer–fall (Jul–Oct).
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Habitat
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Dry roadsides, pastures, thickets; 0–500m.
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Synonym
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Mariscus aggregatus Willdenow, Enum. Pl. 1: 70. 1809; Cyperus cayennensis (Lamarck) Britton 1907, not Willdenow ex Link 1820; C. flavus (Vahl) Nees 1847, not J. Presl & C. Presl 1828; C. flavus (Vahl) Nees var. aggregatus (Willdenow) Kükenthal; C. flavus var. laevis Kükenthal; Kyllinga cayennensis Lamarck; K. squarrosa Baldwin; Mariscus flavus Vahl; M. laevis Kunth
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Cyperus aggregatus: Brief Summary
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Cyperus aggregatus, commonly known as the inflatedscale flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to the Americas.
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