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Engelmann's Flatsedge

Cyperus engelmannii

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) planc, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.

United States	403
Canada	316
Ontario	236
Michigan	86
Quebec	80
New York	76
Wisconsin	40
Massachusetts	36
Minnesota	26
Nebraska	25

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	monocots · Liliopsida
Order	grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
Family	Sedges · Cyperaceae
Genus	Flatsedges · Cyperus

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Grasses of New Hampshire, United States

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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