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unusual facts about sedge



Adenanthos dobagii

It has been reported growing in sand-heath, open mallee, and in a low mixed shrubland of Allocasuarina humilis (Dwarf Sheoak), Isopogon trilobus (Three-lobed Conebush) and Melaleuca pulchella (Clawflower) over sedges.

American pika

It eats a large variety of green plants, including different kinds of grasses, sedges, thistles and fireweed.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

This area of rolling hills, small lakes, and north-flowing, braided rivers is dominated by tundra vegetation consisting of low shrubs, sedges, and mosses.

B. neglecta

Bulbostylis neglecta, the neglected tuft sedge, a plant species endemic to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic

Baffin coastal tundra

The plant cover is sparse in the drier areas while the wetter areas have a fair cover of mosses, sedges, shrubs such as purple saxifrage, arctic willow, and arctic poppy and rushes.

Barkestone-le-Vale

Some species that may be observed in the countryside surrounding the village are buzzards, quail, and reed and sedge warblers.

Beaked sedge

Carex utriculata, (common) beaked sedge or Northwest Territory sedge

Beinn a' Ghlò

It is a region of European dry heaths and there are many species of alpine and marsh plants on the mountain such as the rare yellow oxytropis (Oxytropis campestris), mountain avens (Dryas octopetala), rock speedwell (Veronica fruticans), rock sedge (Carex rupestris) and green spleenwort (Asplenium viride).

Briddlesford Nature Reserve

Other locally distributed ancient woodland specialities include green hellebore (Helleborus viridis), greater butterfly orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) and thin spiked wood sedge (Carex strigosa).

C. echinata

Carex echinata, the star sedge or little prickly sedge, a plant species native to North and Central America and parts of Eurasia

C. emoryi

Carex emoryi, the riverbank tussock sedge or Emory's sedge, a plant species

Cheeseman Island

Between the two high points of the island is a central valley where the vegetation is dominated by the sedge Cyperus ustulatus, while the surrounding slopes are dominated by a mix of Parietaria debilis and Disphyma australe.

Cipanas

Locally present fauna include the silvery gibbon, Javan surili and Sunda Thrush, and flora include Elaeocarpus macrocerus, Alstonia spathulata, Mangifera gedebe (a member of the mango family), Stemonurus secundiflorus, and Thoracostachyrum sumatrana (a large sedge).

Cladium

Cladium mariscus – Great Fen-sedge, Saw-sedge (Europe, Asia, Africa)

Cortinarius cinnamomeus

Cortinarius cinnamomeus colonizes the root systems of the sedges Carex flacca and Carex pilulifera, forming ectomycorrhizal-like structures lacking a Hartig net—a network of hyphae that penetrate between the epidermal and cortical cells of the root.

Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Located within a large watershed that includes Rice, Skunk and Mud Lakes, Platte and Skunk Rivers, Rice and Buckman Creeks, and sedge meadow wetlands, it harbors one of the largest nesting populations of greater sandhill cranes in Minnesota.

Cyperaceae

Some well-known sedges include the water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) and the papyrus sedge (Cyperus papyrus), from which the Ancient Egyptian writing material was made.

Dersingham Bog

The Mire’s make-up of wet acid peat makes it ideal conditions for some rare and diverse species of plants such as Bog Asphodels (Narthecium ossifragum), Round-Leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), White Beaked sedge (Rhynchospora alba) and cranberry.

Großes Meer

The former Siersmeer and Heerenmeeder Meer in the southern part of the nature reserve have completely silted up and now form a large expanse of sedge with transitions to grey willow bushes.

Kushiro-shitsugen National Park

Reeds, sedges, peat moss wetlands, black alder thickets, rivers which bend freely back and forth, groups of lakes and marshes, and other wet ecosystems comprise a varied environment.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve

Sedges and other low plants grow in the wetlands providing food and cover for migrating birds.

Lowes Loch, Ayrshire

The Common Hawker or Sedge Darner (Aeshna juncea) breeds at the site.

Marsh Tapaculo

It inhabits areas of tall (60–180 cm), dense vegetation dominated by sedges (such as Eleocharis) and grasses.

Miramar Beach, California

The stream mouth is clear of canopy vegetation but densely filled with sedges in a marshy setting.

Nile, Washington

The community was established in the mid-1890s by families of James Beck, William Markle and Henry Sedge, who may have named the small valley and community Nile because of the area's fertility thought to resemble that of the Nile River Valley in Egypt.

Northern collared lemming

It feeds on grasses, sedges and other green vegetation in summer, and twigs of willow, aspen and birches in winter.

Plains pocket mouse

Some food found in their cheek pouches are: seeds of needle grass (Stipa), bind weed, sandbur grass, a small bean (probably Astragulus), and sedge (Cyperus).

Posadas Lake

Towards its eastern end, open steppe shrubs prevail (Senecio spp, Schinus molle, Nassauvia ulicina) with Adesmia boronioides and scanty broom sedge (Andropogon argenteus).

Sedge Thomson

Prior to West Coast Live, Sedge produced and hosted a radio show called West Coast Weekend for 8 years, heard only in the Bay Area on KQED.

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Manske and Barker (1987) reported sun sedge (Carex inops), needle and thread grass (Hesperostipa comata), and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) on lekking grounds in the Sheyenne National Grassland in North Dakota.

Smoky Wainscot

The larva is brown with dark and white lines and feeds on various grasses including Alopecurus, Dactylis, Deschampsia, Leymus and Phragmites and has also been recorded on the sedge, Carex and the rush, Luzula.

Southern Alps

Plants adapted to the alpine conditions include woody shrubs like Hebe, Dracophyllum, and Coprosma, the conifer Snow Totara (Podocarpus nivalis) and Carex sedge grasses.

Stabbursdalen National Park

Along the river, willow and sedge, with pine woodland behind, support a rich bird life.

Swamp antechinus

The habitat for all subspecies is closed heath, wet dense heath, open forest, open heath, swampy draiages and tussock grassland with bracken and sedge growth.

Thelnetham

North of the village and along the river is the Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fen Site of Special Scientific Interest, an important calcarous fen wetland site supporting a range of rare species such as black bog rush Schoenus nigricans and saw sedge Cladium mariscus plant species.

Volo Bog State Natural Area

The entire state park displays a microcosm of plant succession, from bog, through wetland, to sedge-grass meadow.

Yandang Mountains

A species of sedge, Carex yandangshanica, has been described from Mt. Yandang and two other mountainous locations in Zhejiang.


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