Cyperaceae
Black bog-rush
Schoenus nigricans
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Schoenus
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Common names
By language (19)
- Bulgarian
- Черен схьонус
- Catalan
- Choin noirâtre
- Czech
- Šášina načernalá
- Dutch
- Knopbies, Zwarte knopbies
- English
- Black bog-rush, Black bogrush
- Estonian
- Mustjas sepsikas
- Finnish
- Mustaruosteheinä
- French
- Choin noirâtre
- German
- Schwarzes Kopfried, Choin noirâtre, Kopfbinsen
- grc
- Μελαγκρανίς
- Hindi
- स्कोएनस नाइग्रिकन्स, काला बोग्रश, काली दलदल-भीड़
- hsb
- Čorna šasnja
- Hungarian
- Kormos csáté
- Irish
- Sifín
- Lithuanian
- Choin noirâtre
- Persian
- گاو چشم
- Polish
- Marzyca czarniawa
- Swedish
- Knappag, Choin noirâtre
- Welsh
- Corsfrwynen ddu
Synonyms
- Blysmus bonanni (C.Presl) Steud.
- Chaetospora nigricans (L.) Kunth
- Chaetospora oligostachya Boeckeler
- Cyperus niger Salisb.
- Elynanthus spathaceus Nees
- Schoenus aggregatus Thunb.
- Schoenus attenuatus Gand.
- Schoenus bonanni C.Presl
- Schoenus compressus C.Presl
- Schoenus hypomelas Spreng.
- Schoenus longus Gand.
- Schoenus megalocephalus Gand.
- Schoenus nigricans var. ambiguus Kük.
- Schoenus nigricans var. plurisquamatus Kük.
- Schoenus subcontortus Gand.
- Schoenus vendeanus Gand.
- Scirpus compressus subsp. bonannii (C.Presl) K.Richt.
- Tetraria capitata Kük.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Kenraiz , Krzysztof Ziarnek, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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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.