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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Spikerushes
  8. Eleocharis palustris

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Eleocharis palustris

Eleocharis palustris

Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Common Spikerush native
  • Pale Spikerush native
  • Bald Spikerush native
  • Creeping Spikerush native
  • Soft-stem Spikerush
  • Kamchatka Spikerush

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Eleocharis palustris All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Common Spikerush Eleocharis palustris caterpillars 4 food 23 flowers 1 shelter 2
  • Pale Spikerush Eleocharis macrostachya caterpillars 2 food 10
  • Bald Spikerush Eleocharis erythropoda caterpillars 2 food 10
  • Creeping Spikerush Eleocharis uniglumis caterpillars 2 food 9

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