Bolboschoenus novae-angliae explained

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae, common names New England bulrush, and Salt march bulrush^[1] is a plant species found along the Atlantic seacoast of the United States from Alabama to Maine (although there are no records of the plant from South Carolina, and reports from Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina remain unconfirmed). It grows in brackish and salt-water marshes and estuaries along the coast.^{[2] [3]}

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae is a perennial herb up to 150 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Culms are triangular in cross-section. Flowers and fruits are borne in spikelets at the tip of the culm. Achenes are variable in shape, sometimes compressed, sometimes trigonous, the two shapes sometimes present on the same plant.^{[2] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

It is listed as a special concern species in Connecticut.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 2017-10-13 . 2018-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143509/http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/wildlife/pdf_files/nongame/ets15.pdf . dead .
2. Web site: Bolboschoenus novae-angliae in Flora of North America. Efloras.org. 17 March 2022.
3. Web site: Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map, Schoenoplectus novae-angliae. 17 March 2022.
4. Browning, J., K. D. Gordon-Gray & S. G. Smith. 1995. Achene structure and taxonomy of North American Bolboschoenus (Cyperaceae). Brittonia 47(4): 433–445.
5. Smith, Stanley Galen. 1995. Brittonia 47(4): 434.
6. Book: An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Vol. 3, Apocynaceae to Compositae, dogbane to thistle. Nathaniel Lord. Britton. Addison. Brown. 17 March 1898. C. Scribner. 3. 17 March 2022.
7. Web site: Rhodora. Benjamin Lincoln. Robinson. Merritt Lyndon. Fernald. New England Botanical. Club. 17 March 1906. New England Botanical Club [etc.]. 8. 17 March 2022.
8. Beetle, Alan Ackerman. 1942. American Journal of Botany 29(1): 87.