Family: Cyperaceae
Group: Monocot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
Vulnerable
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as critically imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 404-406) based on three occurrences in two protected areas and one non-protected area. This species is now known from eight protected areas and was reranked as imperiled using updated NatureServe criteria.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: Although ranked as critically imperliled by IRC in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann, Bradley and Woodmansee 2002), a number of new populations have been discovered since 2002 and additional herbarium specimens have become available leading to the downranking of this to imperiled in 2014. Updated NatureServe criteria were used.
For more images, click on the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants link below.
For a specimen image, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms: C. filiformis [misapplied].
