#sedge  grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
  supertype:  marsh_plant__marshplant__bog_plant__bogplant__swamp_plant__swampplant  a semi-aquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
  member of:  family_Cyperaceae
  subtype:  umbrella_sedge__umbrella_plant__Cyperus_alternifolius  African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
  subtype:  chufa__yellow_nutgrass__earth_almond__earthalmond__groundalmond__rush_nut__Cyperus_esculentus  European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  subtype:  galingale__galangal__Cyperus_longus  European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots
  subtype:  Cyperus_papyrus__papyrus__Egyptian_paper_reed__paper_rush__paperrush  tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
  subtype:  nutgrass__nut_grass__nutgras__nut_sedge__nutsedge__Cyperus_rotundus  a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  subtype:  sand_sedge__sand_reed__Carex_arenaria  European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla
  subtype:  cypress_sedge__cypresssedge__Carex_pseudocyperus  tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan
  subtype:  cotton_grass__cotton_rush  any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes
     subtype:  common_cotton_grass__Eriophorum_angustifolium  having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes
  subtype:  hardstem_bulrush__hardstemmed_bulrush__hardstemmedbulrush__Scirpus_acutus  widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems
  subtype:  wool_grass__Scirpus_cyperinus  sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets
  subtype:  spike_rush__spikerush  a sedge of the genus Eleocharis
     subtype:  Chinese_water_chestnut__water_chestnut__waterchestnut__Eleocharis_dulcis  Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
     subtype:  needle_spike_rush__needle_rush__slender_spike_rush__slenderspikerush__hair_grass__Eleocharis_acicularis  fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums
     subtype:  creeping_spike_rush__Eleocharis_palustris  cylindrical-stemmed sedge

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