Taxon: Rhynchospora alba (L.) Vahl

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Common names:

• white beak sedge   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• white beak-rush   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka
  China: China - Jilin
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu; Korea
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [s.w.]; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana [n.], Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.e.], Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho [n.], Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland.
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Porsild, A. E. & W. J. Cody. 1980. Vascular plants of continental Northwest Territories, Canada.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species (on-line resource).
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rhynchospora alba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rhynchospora alba.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rhynchospora alba.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Schoenus albus L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Rhynchospora alba (L.) Vahl:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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