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| USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. | USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 70. |
| Botanical name: |
Sparganium americanum Nutt. |
| Common
name: |
bur-reed |
| Group: |
Monocot |
| Family: |
Sparganiaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
forb/herb |
| Duration: |
perennial |
| Origin: |
native |
| Plant
height: |
to 2' |
| Foliage: |
long, linear, grass like leaves, 2 ranked; flowers are spherical, burrlike about 1" in diameter; achenes are beaked |
| Flowering/fruiting time |
blooms late June to July; fruits mid July to late September |
| Habitat: |
shallow water, muddy shores of swamps, ponds, streams |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
statewide, most abundant in the Pine Barrens |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
n/a |
| Distribution: |
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| Misc.: |
a sedge
Stone, in 1910, says "While often erect...this form is
often found floating in the more rapid Pine Barren streams, the leaves
being considerably elongated..."(159)
Monoecious, wind polinated. Seeds are eaten by waterfowl, and other birds muskrats will eat the entire plant.
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