sedge

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Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

A flock of herons.

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As the trumpeter swans of Assawa Lake began building their large nest on a mat of floating vegetation where the sedge meadow meets the open water, I understood why they chose such a location, especially when the vegetative nest began growing in height. Source: Internet

Ethnobotanists in western Amazonia have often encountered piri-piri, a strange-looking sedge — a flowering, grasslike plant — reputed to feature many medicinal qualities. Source: Internet

With farms came eventual plowing and fencing and sheep and cows and hogs, and with time came “old fields” with broom sedge and cedar saplings. Source: Internet

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