Index / Search / Eleocharis parvula
§1 Plant
Eleocharis parvula (Roem. & Schult.) Link ex Bluff, Nees & Schauer
vernacular dwarf spikerush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eleocharis
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 222 counties across 34 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 18–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.2 ft
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs, tubers
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 222 counties across 34 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
California view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bastrop 48021
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Calhoun 48057
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Chambers 48071
- Fannin 48147
- Gillespie 48171
- Harris 48201
- Hemphill 48211
- Hidalgo 48215
- Jackson 48239
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Liberty 48291
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- McCulloch 48307
- Menard 48327
- Mitchell 48335
- Montgomery 48339
- Nueces 48355
- Palo Pinto 48363
- Parker 48367
- Presidio 48377
- Reagan 48383
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- Smith 48423
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Travis 48453
- Trinity 48455
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
Utah view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Middlesex 51119
- Northampton 51131
- Richmond 51159
- Smyth 51173
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
Washington view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELPA5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2716818 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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