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Carex glauca Scop. Carex flacca, with common names blue sedge, gray carex, glaucous sedge, or carnation-grass, (syn. Carex glauca), is a species of sedge native to parts of Europe and North Africa. [1] It is frequent in a range of habitats, including grasslands, moorlands, exposed and disturbed soil, and the upper edges of salt marshes. [1]
The Cyperaceae (/ ˌ s aɪ p ə ˈ r eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges.The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera [3] [4] – the largest being the "true sedges" (genus Carex), [5] [6] with over 2,000 species.
Carex is a vast genus of over 2,000 species [3] of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges (or seg, in older books).Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family.
Carex morrowii. Carex temnolepis Franch. Carex morrowii, the kan suge, Morrow's sedge, Japanese grass sedge or Japanese sedge (a name it shares with Carex oshimensis), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. [2][3][4] It is native to central and southern Japan, and has been introduced to Belgium, Denmark and Austria.
L. Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, [2] papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering plant belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is a tender herbaceous perennial, native to Africa, [3] and forms tall stands of reed-like swamp vegetation in shallow water.
The main roots are 6–10 ft (1.8–3.0 m) deep, and the plants send out strong, tough rhizomes, so it forms very strong sod. [4] Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft). The stem base turns blue or purple as it matures. Big bluestem blooms in the summer and seeds into the fall.
Carex texensis, the Texas sedge, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.It is endemic to the eastern, central, and southern United States.. Its culms are 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in) in height, and 0.5–1 mm (1 ⁄ 64 – 3 ⁄ 64 in) wide basally to 0.4–0.5 mm (1 ⁄ 64 – 1 ⁄ 64 in) wide distally.
Andropogon virginicus is a perennial grass forming narrow clumps of stems up to just over a meter in maximum height (around 3 feet 3 inches). Its stems and leaves are green when new, turning purplish to orange and then straw-colored with age. It produces large amounts of seeds small enough to disperse on the wind.