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Title:
Whitetop sedge
Description:
From Natural Gardens (page 285): "A sedge with white bracts or modified leaves which simulate a flower and therefore included among the savannah plants. The true flowers are within the minute overlapping scales of the spikelets aggregated in the center of the " flower." In savannah lands. Summer."
Topics:
Botany
Subjects:
Bracts (botany)
Cyperaceae
Grasses
Sandswamp whitetop sedge (Rhynchospora latifolia)
Original Format:
Black and white lantern slide
Extent:
3.25 x 4 in.
Item identifier:
0021064
Photographer:
Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 
Created Date:
circa to
Location:
Big Savannah (N.C.)
Digital Project:
B. W. Wells