Cyperaceae
Onescale spikerush
Eleocharis uniglumis
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Eleocharis
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Common names
By language (20)
- arz
- اليوشاريس يونيجلوميس
- Belarusian
- Балотніца адналускавая
- Catalan
- Scirpe à une Écaille
- Chinese
- 单鳞苞荸荠, 單鱗苞荸薺
- Czech
- Bahnička jednoplevá
- Dutch
- Slanke waterbies
- English
- Onescale spikerush, Slender spike-rush, Slender spikerush, Saltmarsh spikerush
- Estonian
- Soomusalss
- Finnish
- Meriluikka
- French
- Scirpe à une écaille
- German
- Einspelzige Sumpfbinse, Einspelzige Sumpfsimse, Scirpe à une Écaille
- hsb
- Jednopluwiznata syćawka
- Hungarian
- Egypelyvás csetkáka
- Latvian
- Vienplēksnes pameldrs
- Lithuanian
- Pievinis duonis, Scirpe à une Écaille
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Fjæresivaks
- Swedish
- Agnsäv, Scirpe à une Écaille
- Tatar
- Бер кабырчыклы сазлавык уты
- Ukrainian
- Ситняг однолусковий
- Welsh
- Ysbigfrwynen un cibyn
Synonyms
- Clavula uniglumis (Link) Dumort.
- Cyperus uniglumis (Link) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause
- Eleocharis halophila (Fernald & Brackett) Fernald & Brackett
- Eleocharis palustris subsp. uniglumis (Link) Hartm.
- Eleocharis uniglumis var. typica Fernald & Brackett
- Scirpus palustris subsp. uniglumis (Link) Moritzi
- Scirpus palustris var. uniglumis (Link) Hartm.
- Scirpus uniglumis Link
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native, St. Pierre and Miquelon: native
Photos
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:34, 25 February 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:35, 25 February 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Andrea Moro, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
More in Eleocharis
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- Common spikerushEleocharis palustrisCyperaceae
- Dwarf spikerushEleocharis parvulaCyperaceae
- Fewflower spikerushEleocharis quinquefloraCyperaceae
- Ovate spikerushEleocharis ovataCyperaceae
- Many-stalked spike-rushEleocharis multicaulisCyperaceae
- Soft-stem spikerushEleocharis mamillataCyperaceae
- Purple spikerushEleocharis atropurpureaCyperaceae
- Canada spikesedgeEleocharis geniculataCyperaceae
- Jointed spikesedgeEleocharis equisetoidesCyperaceae
- Yellow spikerushEleocharis flavescensCyperaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.