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The annual sedge typically grows to a height of 0.1 to 0.75 metres (0.3 to 2.5 ft) and has a tufted habit. It blooms between May and December and produces green-yellow-brown flowers. [3] The erect and glabrous grass has fine and numerous roots. It as slender or rigidulous, trigonous stems that are 0.5 to 2.0 millimetres (0.020 to 0.079 in) thick.
Cyperus albostriatus (dwarf umbrella sedge), formerly called C. diffusus) [14] Cyperus haspan [15] Cyperus longus [14] [16] Cyperus papyrus (papyrus) [14] Some Cyperus species are used in folk medicine. Roots of Near East species were a component of kyphi, a medical incense of Ancient Egypt. Tubers of C. rotundus (purple nut-sedge) tubers are ...
The annual or short-lived perennial sedge typically grows to a height of 0.35 to 0.8 metres (1.15 to 2.62 ft). It blooms between late spring and early fall producing reddish-brown flowers. It blooms between late spring and early fall producing reddish-brown flowers.
The sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It is a medium-sized warbler with a brown, streaked back and wings and a distinct pale supercilium. Sedge warblers are migratory, crossing the Sahara to get from their European and Asian breeding grounds to spend winter in Africa. The male's song ...
Cyperus polystachyos, also known as Pycreus polystachyos, and also called manyspike flatsedge in the US, [3] or bunchy sedge, [4] [5] coast flatsedge, many-spiked sedge or Texas sedge in Australia, [5] is a herbaceous species in the family Cyperaceae, widespread in tropical and subtropical areas around the world, sometimes extending its range into temperate regions.
Cyperus nervulosus is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia. [1] The annual sedge typically grows to a height of 0.03 to 0.2 metres (0.10 to 0.66 ft) and has a tufted habit. It blooms between February and July and produces green-brown flowers. [1]
Trichophorum cespitosum, commonly known as deergrass [2] or tufted bulrush, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family.It was originally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Scirpus cespitosus, but was transferred to the genus Trichophorum by the Swedish botanist Carl Johan Hartman in 1849, becoming Trichophorum cespitosum.
The spreading to prostrate annual herb sedge typically grows to a height of 5 centimetres (1.97 in). [2] It has reddish coloured roots and smooth, triquetrous culms that are 1 to 20 cm (0.39 to 7.87 in) in height and with a diameter of 1.5 mm (0.059 in). The leaves are most often no longer than the culms. [1]