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Eleocharis palustris
Eleocharis palustris, the common spike-rush, creeping spike-rush or marsh spike-rush, is a species of mat-forming perennial flowering plants in the sedge family Cyperaceae. It grows in wetlands in Europe, North Africa, northern and central Asia (Siberia, China, Mongolia, Iran, Nepal, etc.) and North America (United States, Canada, Greenland, northern Mexico). Eleocharis palustris is not easily distinguished from other closely related species and is extremely variable worldwide itself. The species epithet palustris is Latin for "of the
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
common spikerush
speciesEleocharis palustris
Pale Spikerush
speciesEleocharis macrostachya
Bald Spikerush
speciesEleocharis erythropoda
Creeping Spikerush
speciesEleocharis uniglumis
Soft-stem Spikerush
speciesEleocharis mamillata
Kamchatka Spikerush
speciesEleocharis kamtschatica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1419558.