Rhynchospora tracyiBritton

Tracy's beaksedge

WFO wfo-0000521692 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Adam Pitcher
fig. a Adam Pitcher, CC0 1.0 / 2020-07-04 / obs. 82762719
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. b Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76423355
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. c Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199514398
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Theo Summer
fig. d Theo Summer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192519441
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186111739
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. f Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166431488
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. g Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149395078
Rhynchospora tracyi, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147647877

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Rhynchospora tracyi is native: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Honduras AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTexasBelizeCubaHonduras Bahamas
Native distribution of Rhynchospora tracyi, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cuba CUB
Honduras HON

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 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.

  • Ceratoschoenus capitatus Chapm.
  • Phaeocephalum tracyi (Britton) House
  • Rhynchospora hitchcockii Gand.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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