sedge

1. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers (synset 112170545)
   is a type of: bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
   subtypes:

   • cyperus alternifolius, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge - African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
   • chufa, cyperus esculentus, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, yellow nutgrass - European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
   • cyperus longus, galangal, galingale - European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots
   • cyperus papyrus, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush, papyrus - tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
   • cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge - a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
   • carex arenaria, sand reed, sand sedge - European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla
   • carex pseudocyperus, cypress sedge - tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan
   • cotton grass, cotton rush - any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes
   • hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, scirpus acutus - widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
   • scirpus cyperinus, wool grass - sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets
   • spike rush - a sedge of the genus Eleocharis
   belongs to: cyperaceae, family cyperaceae, sedge family - bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant

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