T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

for early February, eight for mid-March, two for late March and one for mid-April). HABITAT: Within the range of this speciesit has been reported from mountains; gravelly canyons; sandy canyon bottoms; chasms; foothills; rocky and clayey slopes;amongst rocks; sandy prairies; sandy and clayey flats; valley bottoms; along arroyos; draws; bottoms of gullies; around springs;along streams; gravelly streambeds; along creeks; along sandy creekbeds; along rivers; along sandy and sandy-loamy riverbeds;sandy washes; drainages; along sandy drainage ways; around pools; clayey rain pools; around lakes; ciénegas; marshes; siltyswamps; along (rocky, sandy, clayey, silty and silty-clayey) banks of springs, streams, creeks, rivers and lakes; along (sandy andsilty-clayey) edges of rivers; pools, poolbeds, ponds, lakes and lagoons; margins of ponds and lakes; shorelines of rivers, pondsand lakes; mudflats; sandbanks; gravel and sand bars; beaches; sandy benches; terraces; sandy floodplains; around sandy-siltytanks; sandy-silty shorelines of reservoirs; banks of levees; canal banks; along ditches; ditch banks; gravelly, sandy and muddyriparian areas, and disturbed areas growing in shallow water; muddy, and wet and moist rocky, stony, gravelly and sandy ground;sandy loam and silty-clayey loam ground; clay ground, and sandy silty and silty ground, occurring from sea level to 6,300 feet inelevation in the woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecological formations. NOTES: This plant may be anattractive component of a restored native habitat, it forms large dense bunches. This plant was reported to have been utilized bynative peoples of North America and could be investigated to determine its value as a home garden or commercial food crop.Ducks use this plant for cover and feed on the seeds, shoots and roots. Cyperus odoratus is native to Australia; western andsoutheastern Asia and coastal islands in the North Pacific Ocean; central and southern Africa and coastal islands in the WestIndian Ocean; east-central, southwest-central and southern North America and coastal islands in the North Atlantic Ocean;Central America and coastal islands in the Caribbean Sea, and South America. *5, 6, 43 (081309), 44 (090511), 46 (Page 149),58, 63 (081309 - color presentation), 85 (090511 - color presentation), 89 (reported as being a long-lived annual herb located onthe Santa Cruz Flood-plain, recorded as Cyperus ferax Rich.), 124 (090511), 127, 140 (Page 290)*Cyperus rotundus C. Linnaeus: NutgrassCOMMON NAMES: Alho-bravo (Portuguese: Brazil); Almendra de Tierra (Spanish); Balisanga (Ilocano); Botobotonis(Bicolano); Capim-alho (Portuguese: Brazil); Capim-dandá (Portuguese: Brazil); Castañuela (Spanish); Cebollín(Spanish); Chaguan Humatag (Chamorro); Chufa (a name also applied to other species, Spanish); Coco (Spanish); Coco Grass;Coco Nut-grass; Coco Nutsedge; Coco Sedge; Coco-grass; Cocograss; Coquillo Purpura (Spanish); Coquito (Spanish); Cortadera(Spanish); Hamasuge (Japanese); Herbe à Oignons (French); Ivako (Fijian); Juncia Real (Spanish); Kili‘o‘Opu (Hawaiian);Kili’o’Opu; Mala-apulid (Pampangan); Malanga (Fijian); Matie ‘Ōniāni (Maori); Mauku ‘Ōniāni (Maori); Mau‘u Mokae(Hawaiian); Mot Ha (Fijian); Mumuta (Samoan and Tokelauan); Mutha (Tagalog); Nut Grass (a name also applied to otherspecies and the genus Cyperus); Nut Sedge; Nut-grass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Cyperus); Nut-grassFlatsedge; Nutgrass (a name also applied to other species); Nutgrass Flatsedge; Nutgrass Galingale; ‘Ōniāni Lau (Maori); ‘ŌniāniRau (Maori); ‘Ōniāni Tita (Maori); Pakopako (Tongan); Purple Flat Sedge; Purple Flat-sedge; Purple Flatsedge; Purple NutGrass; Purple Nut Sedge; Purple Nut-grass; Purple Nut-sedge; Purple Nutgrass; Purple Nutsedge; Red Nut Sedge; Red Nutsedge;Red Nutsedge; Round Root; Round-root; Sedge; Soranakambani (Fijian); Soro ni Kabani (Fijian); Soronakambani(Fijian); Souchet à Tubercules (French); Souchet d'Asie (French); Souchet en Forme d'Olive (French); Souchet Rond (French);Southern Nut Grass; Southern Nut-grass; Southern Nutgrass; Suo Cao (transcribed Chinese); Sur-sur (Pampangan); Tamanengi(Palauan); Te Mumute (I-Kiribati); Tiririca (Portuguese: Brazil); Tiririca-vermelha (Portuguese: Brazil); Tuteoneon(Marshallese); Vucesa (Fijian); Vuthesa (Fijian); Xiang Fu Zi (transcribed Chinese); Yellow Nutgrass. DESCRIPTION:Terrestrial perennial graminoid (1 to 24 inches in height); the spikelets may be dark brown-purple, purplish, reddish or reddishbrown;flowering generally takes place between mid-May and late November (additional records: two for early March, four formid-March and one for late April). HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from sandy clearings;slopes; dunes; sandy flats; valley floors; railroad right-of-ways; along gravelly-sandy-clayey and sandy roadsides; clayeycreekbeds; in gravel along rivers; sandy riverbeds; along banks of arroyos, streams and rivers; along (gravelly and sandy)shorelines; benches; mesquite bosques; canal banks; ditches; ditch banks; sandy riparian areas; waste places, and disturbed areasgrowing in shallow water and wet and moist gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; sandy loam ground, and gravelly-sandyclay ground, occurring from sea level to 7,500 feet in elevation in the forest, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland ecologicalformations. NOTES: This plant was reported to have been utilized by native peoples of North America; it was noted as havingbeen used for food. Nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus) is generally acknowledged as being the world’s worst weed. Cyperus rotundusis native to south-central and southern North America; Central America and coastal islands in the Caribbean Sea; South America;central and southern Europe; western, central eastern and southern Asia and coastal islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans;Africa and coastal islands in the western Indian Ocean, and Australia, some authors consider this plant to be an Exotic that isnative to the Old World. *5, 6, 43 (081409), 44 (040411), 46 (Page 150), 63 (040411 - color presentation), 68, 77, 85 (090511 -color presentation of dried material), 101 (color photograph), 106 (090511 - color presentation), 124 (040411), 127, 132*Cyperus squarrosus C. Linnaeus: Bearded FlatsedgeSYNONYMY: Cyperus aristatus C.F. Rottbøll. COMMON NAMES: Apoyamate (Spanish) 140 ; Awned Cyperus;Awned Flat Sedge; Awned Flat-sedge; Awned Galingale; Awned Nut-grass; Awned Nut-sedge; Awned Nutsedge; Awned Sedge;Awned Umbrella Sedge; Awned Umbrella-sedge; Beard Flatsedge; Bearded Flat Sedge; Bearded Flat-sedge (English) 140 ;Bearded Flatsedge; Bearded Nutgrass; Curve-tip Flatsedge (Colorado); Dwarf Odorous Galingale; Dwarf Sedge; (Spanish: Mountain Pima) 140 ; Incurved Umbrella Sedge; Incurved Umbrella-sedge; Marsh Sedge; [Dwarf] Marsh Sedge(English) 140 ; Nut-sedge (English) 140 ; Rice-field Flatsedge; Ricefield Flatsedge; Squarrose Cyperus; Squarrose Flat-sedge;Squarrose Flatsedge; Squarrose Umbrella Sedge; Squarrose Umbrella-sedge; Teeł Níyiz (“Round Cattail” a name22