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Fewflower spikerush
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Cyperaceae
Genus:	Eleocharis
Species:	E. quinqueflora
Binomial name
	Eleocharis quinqueflora; (Hartmann) O. Schwarz
Synonyms
	List Baeothryon halleri (Vill.) T.Nees; Baeothryon pauciflorum (Lightf.) A.Dietr.; Clavula boeotryon (L.f.) Dumort.; Cyperus pauciflorus (Lightf.) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause; Eleocharis atacamensis Phil.; Eleocharis baeothryon (L.f.) Nees; Eleocharis baeothryon Schult.; Eleocharis czernjajevi Zoz; Eleocharis fernaldii (Svenson) Á.Löve; Eleocharis meridionalis Zinserl.; Eleocharis obscura T.Koyama; Eleocharis pauciflora (Lightf.) Link; Eleocharis pauciflora var. fernaldii Svenson; Eleocharis quinqueflora subsp. fernaldii (Svenson) Hultén; Eleocharis quinqueflora subsp. meridionalis (Zinserl.) T.V.Egorova; Eleocharis vierhapperi Bojko; Isolepis andina Phil.; Limnochloa baeothryon (L.f.) Rchb.; Limnochloa pauciflora (Lightf.) Peterm.; Scirpus atacamensis (Phil.) Kuntze; Scirpus baeothryon L.f.; Scirpus campestris Rottb.; Scirpus cespitosus Pollich; Scirpus graecus Quézel & Contandr.; Scirpus halleri Vill.; Scirpus pauciflorus Lightf.; Scirpus pauciflorus var. fernaldii (Svenson) Hiitonen; Scirpus quinqueflorus Hartmann; Scirpus sepium Honck.; Trichophorum pauciflorum (Lightf.) Pignatti; Trichophorum vierhapperi (Bojko) Pignatti; ;

Eleocharis quinqueflora is a species of spikesedge known by the common names fewflower spikerush^[2] and few-flowered spike-rush.^[3] It is widespread across Europe, North Africa, northern Asia (Siberia, China, Kazakhstan, Himalayas, etc.), and North America (Canada, Greenland, northern and western US). There are also isolated populations in Argentina and Chile.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

Eleocharis quinqueflorais a resident of wet meadows, bogs, hot springs, and other moist places. This is a rhizomatous perennial approaching a maximum height of 40 centimeters. The thin, flattened stems are surrounded by papery reddish to green leaf sheaths and topped with dark inflorescences. The spikelet is lance-shaped to oval and less than a centimeter long. It contains two to seven flowers, each of which is covered with a brown or black bract. The fruit is a yellow-brown achene two or three millimeters long.^[13]

References

^ "Eleocharis quinqueflora (Hartmann) O.Schwarz". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Eleocharis quinqueflora". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Giunchina a 5 fiori, Eleocharis quinqueflora (Hartman) Schwarz includes photos plus distribution maps for Europe and North America
^ Boulos, L. (2005). Flora of Egypt 4: 1-617. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
^ Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Conspectus Florae Caucasi 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
^ Jermy, C., Simpson, D., Foley, M. & Porter, M. (2007). Sedges of the British Isles. B.S.B.I. Handbook No. 1 , ed. 3: 1-554. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London.
^ Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
^ Zuloaga, F. O., O. N. Morrone, M. J. Belgrano, C. Marticorena & E. Marchesi. (eds.) 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107(1–3): i–xcvi, 1–3348.
^ Flora of North America, Eleocharis quinqueflora (Hartmann) O. Schwarz, Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges. 1: 89. 1949.