Calflora: Rhynchospora capitellata

Rhynchospora capitellata (Michaux) M. Vahl

brownish beaksedge, capitate beaked rush

Rhynchospora capitellata, a monocot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 2.2 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Coastal Salt Marsh, Yellow Pine Forest, wetland-riparian
Habitat:	coastal, salt-marsh [CNPS Inventory]
Wetlands:	Occurs almost always under natural conditions in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 3300 feet
Family:	CYPERACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Rhynchospora found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Rhynchospora glomerata var. capitellata
PLANTS:	Rhynchospora glomerata var. minor

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
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	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Butte: 31 / 28 CCH El Dorado: 3 / 3 CCH Mariposa: 3 / 2 CCH Nevada: 13 / 10 CCH Plumas: 16 / 14 CCH Sonoma: 25 / 21 CCH Trinity: 6 / 5 CCH Tuolumne: 1 / 0 CCH Yuba: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Rhynchospora capitellata from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (RHCA12)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database