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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 ...
Studies in Nigeria and Uganda suggest that sedge warblers return to spend winter at the same sites, year after year. [12] All sedge warblers spend winter in sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, and as far south as the eastern Cape Province of South Africa and northern Namibia. The routes taken on the southward ...
Cladium (fen-sedge, sawgrass or twig-sedge) is a genus of large sedges, with a nearly worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions. These are plants characterized by long, narrow (grass-like) leaves having sharp, often serrated (sawtooth-like) margins, and flowering stems 1–3 m tall bearing a much-branched inflorescence .
The rhizomatous perennial grass-like sedge typically grows to a height of 0.35 to 1 metre (1.1 to 3.3 ft) and has a tufted habit. It blooms between July and March producing brown flowers. [ 1 ] It normally has a short thick rhizome with smooth, trigonous and terete culms .
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]
The name Carex deweyana was first published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 1: 65 in 1824 in an article written by Lewis David de Schweinitz. [2]
Carex binervis, the green-ribbed sedge, [2] is a European species of sedge with an Atlantic distribution. It is found from Fennoscandia to the Iberian Peninsula , and occurs in heaths , moorland and other damp, acidic environments.