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Rhynchospora alba (white beak-sedge)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Rhynchospora alba, the white beak-sedge, is a plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is a tufted herbaceous perennial plant found in fairly acidic wetlands which have few plant nutrients. In North America, it is widely distributed throughout the eastern United States, along the west coast, and across Canada. It is also found widely in Europe, including the British Isles.
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Attributes

Height [1]  12 inches (.3 m)
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Grass
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Very Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Wet

Protected Areas

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Predators

Anthomyza collini[4]
Coenonympha inornata (inornate ringlet)[5]
Coenonympha tullia (California ringlet)[5]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0