It’s not a grass, and it’s not a sage. It’s a “sedge.” This week’s column is devoted to a certain plant family, and ...

Many sedges have triangular shaped stems, giving them edges that are easily ... I was intrigued and started looking around for this plant in local nurseries. I saw another ornamental sedge used as a ...

Leaves tend to come off from two sides of the stem. saline: Refers to a non-alkaline, but contains enough free salts to interfere with plant growth. sedge: Plants of the sedge (Cyperaceae) family that ...

Arching flower stems appear from within the clump in May and June ... It also grows to form a sizeable clump, so can smother and outcompete smaller plants. Pendulous sedge self-seeds readily, with ...

Creeping through the sand dunes at our coastal sites, Sand sedge is a common perennial that uses underground stems (rhizomes) to spread. It is one of the first plants to colonise new or open sand ...

Nutsedge (yellow) is a perennial sedge which is a pest in many cropping ... The sedges are identified by having a triangular stem. Control measures are available in most situations. A related plant, ...

The nest is usually well hidden by vegetation, and woven around the vertical stems of plants. Sedge warblers’ eggs are rounded and greenish-yellow in colour, heavily mottled with brown speckles. They ...

strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils. Greater pond sedge is a clump-forming plant of ditches, ponds, canals, fens and riverbanks, particularly in ...

Sugarcane plant with stem and leaf isolated vector illustration on white background ... Hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum); 9-11) Wood-sedge (Carex sylvatica); 12-13) Acute sedge (Carex ...

Pīkao or pīngao is a native sand-binding sedge that plays an ... on more mature plants, a fiery orange. In spring it produces flower heads up to 30 cm long, with dark brown flowers that spiral around ...

It prefers wet areas such as streambanks, sedge meadows and wet prairies ... Hand removal is effective for removing individual plants or small patches. Remove as much of the stem and roots as possible ...

strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils. Greater pond sedge is a clump-forming plant of ditches, ponds, canals, fens and riverbanks, particularly in ...