Log In New Account Sitemap
  • Home
  • Search
    • Search Collections
    • Map Search
  • Chicago Botanic Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Denver Botanic Gardens
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Desert Botanical Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • NY Botanical Garden
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
    • Project Information
    • Checklists
    • Create a Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
Scheuchzeria
Family: Scheuchzeriaceae
Scheuchzeria image
Steve Buckley
  • FNA
  • Gleason & Cronquist
  • Resources
Mark A. Nienaber in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Stems erect, unbranched, usually sheathed at base by remains of old leaves. Leaves basal and cauline; cauline well separated, bases sheathing, dilated, ligules prominent, membranous; blade erect. Flowers: tepals persistent, distinct; ovaries broadly ellipsoid, 1-loculed, inflated at maturity; ovules (1--)2(--3) per pistil; stigmas abaxial, nearly apical. Follicles mostly 1--4 per aggregate, spreading.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Characters of the family. Monotypic.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Scheuchzeria americana
Images
not available
Map not
Available
Scheuchzeria palustris
Image of Scheuchzeria palustris
Map not
Available

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
Powered by Symbiota