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|accepted_name=Scleria verticillata
|accepted_authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 317. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Scleria;Scleria verticillata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scleria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scleria verticillata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 243, 245
|treatment_page=page 244
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; rhizomes absent; roots reddish, fibrous. <b>Culms</b> solitary or in tufts, erect, slender, (7–) 10–60 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths green or streaked with purple, smooth or weakly ribbed, usually narrowly winged, long-villous; contra-ligules minute; blades linear or filiform, plane or keeled, shorter than culms, 0.5–2 mm wide, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, glomerate-spicate, 2.5–13 cm; glomerules 2–9, erect, brown, compact, 3–7 mm wide, each with 5–12(–15) spikelets; proximal glomerules occasionally on short, erect peduncles; rachis glabrous; bracts subtending inflorescence bristlelike, minutely ciliate or glabrous, inconspicuous. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual, alternate, often appearing cyclic or whorled, 2–3(–4) mm; scales oblong-lanceolate. <b>Achenes</b> whitish or often gray or brownish or with dark interangular markings, trigonous-globose, 1–1.5(–1.9) mm, base trigonous, stipelike, short, narrowly constricted, and somewhat pitted or ribbed, apex distinctly mucronate, surface transversely tuberculate with quadrate ridges; hypogynium obsolete, represented by narrow brownish ridge at base of achene.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Wet, marly, sandy, or peaty soils in marshes, bogs, savannas, moist meadows, wet pinelands, and lakeshores
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;La.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|discussion=<p><i>Scleria verticillata</i> has very close affinities with S. hirtella and S. tenella Kunth. It is relatively wide-ranging, extending along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts and inland to the Great Lakes, where it remains a very distinct species. At its southern limit in the West Indies, it tends to merge with both S. hirtella and S. tenella, producing intermediate forms and blurring its specific boundaries.</p>
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name=Scleria verticillata
|author=
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer–fall.
|habitat=Wet, marly, sandy, or peaty soils in marshes, bogs, savannas, moist meadows, wet pinelands, and lakeshores
|elevation=0–400 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;La.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.;Wis.;West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba).
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
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|genus=Scleria
|species=Scleria verticillata
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