A Personal Cyperaceae, or even a Sedge personal, occurs as taxonomic group of monocot flowering plants that superficially resemble grasses or rushes. A personal is big, by using a select few 4,000 metal money described inside astir Lxx genera. These mintage come widely distributed, by owning a centers of diversity for the class action occurring around tropical Asia & tropical South America. When sedges can exist as encountered growing all told rather situations, it tend to be associated by owning soaked web pages & unfortunate soils.

A select few easily-known sedges come a Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) and papyrus (Cyperus papyrus). Ancient Egyptian writing poop was processed away from a latter. This personal as well includes cotton-grass (Eriophorum), spike-rush (Eleocharis), sawgrass (Cladium), nutsedge or nutgrass (Cyperus, the most common lawn weed), Elk sedge (Carex geyeri), and White Star Sedge (Rhynchospora colorata).

Genera
Blysmus Bolboschoenus Carex Cladium Cyperus Desmoschoenus Eleocharis Eleogiton Elyna Eriophorum Fimbristylis Fuirena Isolepis Kobresia Lipocarpha Pycreus *Rhynchospora Schoenoplectus Schoenus Scirpoides Scirpus Trichophorum

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