Scirpus atrovirens

Cyperaceae

Coastal Plain, Mountain, Piedmont

Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia

Emergent Herbaceous (Can grow with roots in water), Grass/Grasslike

3 - 6ft

- ft

Brown

Achene (dry, flat seed); Brown

Full Sun

Clay, Loamy

Flooded, Wet

June - August

shallow emergent marsh, shrub swamp, floodplain forest, hardwood swamp; swamps, bogs, wet meadows, swales, ditches

grows in clumps or sod-forming