list of Latin and synonymous common names of - University of ...

(pretty sedge, purple-tinged sedge, Wood's sedge)
Carex x xanthocarpa Degland ex Loiseleur [flava x hostiana] (Carex x leutzii Kneucker ex Ber., Carex x
xanthina Fernald) (yellowfruit sedge) (QC & NF only)
Carex xerantica L.H. Bailey (dryland sedge, whitescale sedge)
Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr. (Mariscus mariscoides (Muhl.) Kuntze) (smooth sawgrass, twig-rush,
water bog-rush)
Cyperus acuminatus Torr. & Hook. ex Torr. (tapertip flatsedge) (NY southward & SK; not in e. Canada)
Cyperus amuricus Maxim. (Cyperus microiria Steud.) (Asian flatsedge)* (NY southward; not in Canada)
Cyperus bipartitus Torr. (Cyperus niger Ruiz & Pav. var. rivularis (Kunth) V.E. Grant, Cyperus rivularis
Kunth, Pycreus rivularis (Kunth) Palla) (river-galingale, slender flatsedge, umbrella-sedge)
Cyperus compressus L. (poorland flatsedge) (NY southward; not in Canada)
Cyperus dentatus Torr. (dentate umbrella sedge, toothed cyperus, toothed flatsedge. toothed nut
sedge)
Cyperus diandrus Torr. (low cyperus, low umbrella sedge, twin-boys galingale, umbrella flatsedge)
Cyperus echinatus (L.) Alph. Wood (Cyperus ovularis (Michx.) Torr., Cyperus ovularis (Michx.) Torr. var.
sphaericus Boeckeler (globe flatsedge) (NY southward; not in Canada)
Cyperus erythrorhizos Muhl. (Cyperus halei Torr. ex Britton) (red-rooted cyperus, redroot flatsedge, red-
rooted umbrella sedge)
Cyperus esculentus L. var. leptostachyus Boeckeler (Cyperus esculentus L. var. angustispicatus Britton)
(northern nutgrass, souchet, yellow nut-grass, yellow nut-sedge)*/**
Cyperus esculentus L. var. macrostachyus Boeckeler (Cyperus lutescens Torr. & Hook.) yellow
nutsedge (NY & southward; not in Canada)*/**
Cyperus flavescens L. (Cyperus flavescens L. var. poiformis (Pursh) Fernald, Cyperus nieuwlandii
Geise, Pycreus flavescens (L.) Rchb. (yellow cyperus, yellow flatsedge, yellow galingale, yellow
umbrella sedge, yellowish umbrella sedge)
Cyperus flavicomus Michx. (Cyperus albomarginatus (Mart. & Schrad. ex Nees) Steud., Cyperus
sabulosus (Mart. & Schrad. ex Nees) Steud., Pycreus flavicomus (Michx.) C.D. Adams)
(whiteedge flatsedge) (NY southward; not in Canada)
Cyperus fuscus L. (brown cyperus, brown flatsedge, brown umbrella sedge, dusky galingale)*
Cyperus houghtonii Torr. (Houghton‟s cyperus, Houghton's flatsedge, Houghton's galingale, Houghton‟s
umbrella sedge)
Cyperus involucratus Rottb. (Cyperus alternifolius auct. non L., Cyperus alternifolius L. ssp. flabelliformis
(Rottb.) Kük., Cyperus flabelliformis Rottb.) (umbrella plant, unbrella [sic] plant)* (NY southward;
not in Canada)
Cyperus lupulinus (Spreng.) Marcks ssp. lupulinus (Cyperus filiculmis auct. non Vahl, Cyperus
martindalei auct. non Britton, Mariscus filiculmis auct. non (Vahl) T. Koyama) (Great Plains f
latsedge, lupine-galingale, slender cyperus, slender umbrella sedge)
Cyperus lupulinus (Spreng.) Marcks ssp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks (Cyperus bushii Britton, Cyperus
filiculmis Vahl var. macilentus Fernald) (Bush‟s galingale, Great Plains flatsedge)
Cyperus odoratus L. (Cyperus acicularis Schrad. ex Nees, Cyperus eggersii Boeckeler, Cyperus
engelmannii Steud., Cyperus ferax Rich., Cyperus ferruginescens Boeckeler, Cyperus
longispicatus J.B.S. Norton, Cyperus macrocephalus Liebm., Cyperus macrocephalus Liebm. var.
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