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unusual facts about sedges



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Cassionympha detecta

The larvae feed on various sedges and restios, including Ficinia ramosissima, Ficinia elongata, possibly Ficinia acuminate, Restio species, including Restio tenuissimus.

Cedar Bog

The sedges and other plants that grow here left behind by the last glacier were the food for mastodons and giant sloths that once roamed the earth.

Changtang Nature Reserve

The vegetation is open shrubland and grasslands mainly dominated by Stipa grasses and Kobresia species ("bog sedges").

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.

The Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes.

Flatwoods

Many rare and usual herbaceous plants are found here, particularly orchids (e.g. Calopogon species, Pogonia ophioglossoides), sedges (e.g. Rhynchospora species) and carnivorous plants (e.g. Sarracenia species).

Forrestdale and Thomsons Lakes Ramsar Site

They are similar in size and shape, being oval, about 1.6 km long by 1.3 km wide, with large central areas of open water when full and with shorelines vegetated with concentric fringes of the introduced bulrush Typha orientalis, sedges, paperbarks and other plants tolerant of seasonal waterlogging.

Holochilus sciureus

Amazonian marsh rats feed primarily on grass stems, although they also eat some seeds, and small quantities of sedges, other plants, and even small invertebrates.

Kiang

Like all equids, kiangs are herbivores, feeding on grasses and sedges, especially Stipa, but also including other local plants such as bog sedges, Carex, and meadow grass.

Peat

Landscapes covered in peat also have specific kinds of plants, particularly Sphagnum moss, Ericaceous shrubs, and sedges (see bog for more information on this aspect of peat).

Purple Skimmer

The main habitat type for this species is clear, sandy lakes with shoreline stands of maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) and sometimes sedges and St. John's worts.

Sea of Azov

The shores of the Sea of Azov contain numerous limans, estuaries and marshes and are dominated by reeds, sedges, Typha and Sparganium.

Seathwaite, South Lakeland

sef (sedges) and thveit (clearing) and may be taken to mean "Sedges clearing".

Southern hairy-nosed wombat

Southern hairy-nosed wombats, along with other wombat species, select native perennial grasses and sedges, but do consume introduced pasture species, forbs, and the leaves of woody shrubs if their favoured food is not available.

Tulare Lake

The expression "out in the tulies", referring to the 3–10 ft-tall sedges lining the lakeshore, is still common in the dialect of old Californian families and means "beyond far away".

Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition

Typical tallgrass prairie vegetation such as grasses, forbs, shrubs, and sedges, increase with an increase in the amount of fire, whereas tree density and basal area decreases.


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