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Scouler's Surfgrass

Phyllospadix scouleri Hook.

Description

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Herbs; nodes with 2 rows of 3--5 roots. Leaves: sheath 4--35 cm, margins not overlapping; blade to 2 m ´ 1--4 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to truncate or rarely slightly notched; veins 3. Generative shoots 0.2--11 cm, nodes 1--2, proximal node when present with 1 leaf, sterile, distal node with 1 leaf and 1(--2) spathes. Inflorescences: peduncles 11--60 ´ 1--2 mm; staminate bract 4--5.5 ´ 2--3 mm; pistillate bract 4--8 ´ 1.5--3 mm, base not narrowed, apex truncate to acute. Fruits 4--5 ´ 5.5 mm.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 22 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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B.C.; Alaska, Calif., Oreg., Wash.; Mexico (in Baja California).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 22 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
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Flora of North America Editorial Committee
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Flowering/Fruiting

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Flowering and fruiting late spring and summer.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 22 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America Editorial Committee
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Habitat

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Intertidal and upper part of sublittoral; -2m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of North America Vol. 22 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
editor
Flora of North America Editorial Committee
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eFloras.org
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eFloras