Fimbristylis spathacea
hurricane-grass

Native to Florida

This fringe-rush may be found as single plants or as large colonies in disturbed sites. Its inflorescence looks somewhat different from other Fimbristylis speces, and so is easy to identify. It is food of geese and ducks. There are about a dozen species of Fimbristylis in Florida (Wunderlin, 1998). Hurricane grass can be found in FL, HI, PR, and the Virgin Islands (Kartesz, 1999)>

Hurricane-grass is a fringe-rush sedge. Stems to 20 in. tall, stiff; leaf blades basal, linear, to 3/16 in. wide, spreading, stiff; bract stiff, shorter than inflorescence; inflorescence head-like, distinctive, densely crowded with spikelets; spikelets ovoid, to 1/4 in. long, scales ovate; nutlet brown to black.

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