Dulichium arundinaceum
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton |
| Common name: | Three way sedge |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Growth type: | graminoid |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 30 cm-1 meter |
| Foliage: | Leaves are perfectly three ranked; alternate, simple linear stems are hollow |
| Flower: | one per scale, many scales per spikelet, each spikelet pointed at the tip |
| Flowering time: | mid June to late September |
| Habitat: | swamps and marshes |
| Range in New Jersey: | statewide, decreasing on the coast strip and up tidewater streams |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Dulichium, Latin,
"an island of the Ionian Sea, southeast of Ithaca, belonging to the
kingdom of Ulysses"; arundinaceum, Latin, arundo,
"reed, cane", and aceus,
"resembles,.like"; i.e, reed-like. |