Plant Details

Scientific Name: Coleocarya gracilis
  • Pronunciation: coal-ee-oh-CARE-ee-ah gra-SILL-is
  • Type: Restiad - Perennial Monoecious Herb with creeping Rhizome
  • Family: RESTIONACEAE
  • Flowers: summer
  • Fruit: Nut - dark brown, obloid
  • Species List: NNP Parkedge/Alex, SRR NNP, SRR,

Identification Notes

Rhizome: creeping, 3-4 mm dia, woolly, hairy.
 Stem: green, Simple or branched,erect, Terete
 Sheaths: lax
 Female Spikelet: almost wholly enclosed in floral bract at Node in lower portion of Stem
 Male Spikelet: 8-10 flowered, 6 tepals.

  • Coleocarya gracilis
  • Coleocarya gracilis
  • Coleocarya gracilis
  • Coleocarya gracilis
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