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Plant Taxonomy
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Grasses and Sedges
Cyperus rotundus - Wikipedia
Cyperus rotundus - USDA PLANTS Database
Nutsedge - Foraging Texas
| Duration: Perennial | Native to: Africa, southern and central Europe, and southern Asia | Edibility: Seeds and Tubers | Status in Yard: Suppressed |
Nut Grass (Cyperus rotundus) is one of the most invasive plants in the world. It grows very quickly, and forms rhizome nodes that sprout plants again and again. The rhizomes are allelopathic; they produce a chemical that hinders the growth of other plants around them.
On the other hand, the plant has a lot of uses, as food, medicine, etc.
I have thought that the sedge leaves I keep pulling out of my third raised bed were nut grass, but I don't have any proof of that. The stems are easy to pull up, but I always feel a little pop from the stem breaking away from the rhizome.
Here is an individual of nut grass on the front curb by my driveway on August 30, 2016.
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