Rhynchospora nitens

Native to Florida

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Rhynchospora nitens is frequently found growing in wet flatwoods, pond margins and ditches nearly throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). It blooms from summer to fall.

Bald-rush is a sedge. stems to 2 ft. tall; leaf blades few, from the base, narrow, triangularly channeled, to 1 ft. long; inflorescence open, long thin branches, spikelets on branch tips; bracts 2-3, long, leaf-like; spikelets stalked, cone-shaped, very dark brown, few to many, to 1/3 in. long; nutlets lens-shaped, tan