Tropical Nutrush

Scleria microcarpa

IntroducedInvasive · FISC Category I

Invasive — FISC Category I. The Florida Invasive Species Council lists this plant as altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives. Please don't plant it; if it's on your land, consider removing it. About the FISC list

Tropical Nutrush (Scleria microcarpa) — Photo: (c) Alexis López Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Alexis López Hernández · CC BY 4.0 · source

Where it grows in Florida

PanhandleNorthCentralSouthKeys

Central: Okeechobee, Osceola, Polk

3 of 67 counties, from research-grade iNaturalist observations. They show where people have photographed it, not every place it grows — absence here isn't proof it's absent.