Bog Club Rush

Schoenoplectiella mucronata is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family^[1] known by the common names bog bulrush,^[2] rough-seed bulrush,^[3] and ricefield bulrush.^[4] It is native to Eurasia, Africa and Australia.^[5] It grows in moist and wet terrestrial habitat, and in shallow water. It is a perennial herb growing from a short, hard rhizome. The erect, three-angled stems grow in dense clumps and can reach a metre tall. The leaves take the form of sheaths wrapped around the base of stem, but they generally do not have blades. The inflorescence is a headlike cluster of cone-shaped spikelets accompanied by an angled, stiff bract which may look like a continuation of the stem.^{[6]: 228–30}

It is a weed of rice fields in California.^[4][7]

Taxonomy

Forming a dense thickets along ditches

The accepted name for this species is Schoenoplectiella mucronata according to the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria,^[1] and the Plants of the World Online database.^[8]

This plant has some 35 synonyms according to Plants of the world online,^[5] but the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria lists two.^[1] It was first described as Scirpus mucronatus in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus.^[1][9] In 1889 Eduard Palla transferred it to the genus, Schoenoplectus,^[10] and Schoenoplectus mucronatus was the accepted name until 2010 when it was transferred to the genus, Schoenoplectiella by Jongduk Jung and Hong-Kuen Choi.^[1][6]

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