Rhynchospora colorata(L.) H.Pfeiff.

whitetop sedge

WFO wfo-0000515018 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by samlutfy
fig. a samlutfy, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201640093
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. b Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200670746
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. c Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197015398
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by John Kees
fig. d John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198496578
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Leila Dasher
fig. e Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196896413
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Stephanie C
fig. f Stephanie C, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193260833
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Vicki Miller
fig. g Vicki Miller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194325707
Rhynchospora colorata, photographed by Lissette M Fadul M
fig. h Lissette M Fadul M, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193801041

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Flowering n = 428 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 428 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 19 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyperus kyllingia Endl.
  • Dichroma ciliatum Ham.
  • Dichroma ciliatum Pers.
  • Dichroma leucocephalum Pers.
  • Dichromena ciliata Pers.
  • Dichromena colorata (L.) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Dichromena drummondiana Steud.
  • Dichromena glabra Pers.
  • Dichromena leucocephala Michx.
  • Dichromena persooniana Nees
  • Kyllinga colorata (L.) Druce
  • Kyllinga monocephala Rottb.
  • Rhynchospora drummondiana Steud.
  • Rhynchospora leucocephala (Michx.) Boeckeler
  • Rhynchospora persooniana Griseb.
  • Rhynchospora stellata (Lam.) Griseb.
  • Rhynchospora stellata f. intercedens Kük.
  • Schoenus coloratus L.
  • Schoenus stellatus Lam.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.