Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-633.22.05
Amphiscirpus nevadensis
Genus: 1 species.
English: Nevada bulrush.
Region: western North America.
Botany: habitat wet and seasonally wet habitat, saline and alkaline soils; perennial herb; small, hard rhizome; stems erect, stiff, ridged, cylindrical, not three-angled; lacks aerenchyma, sheathed by tough long leaves; inflorescence a headlike cluster of a few cone-shaped spikelets with along, stiff bract which looks like an extension of the stem.