| Grass-like plants with solid stems often triangular in cross section ("sedges have edges") and solid internodes. Leaves 3-ranked with usually closed sheaths and no ligules. Flowers tiny clustered in heads subtended by 1 bract (glume). | |
| Flora of North America: Discussion, key to genera (opens new window) | |
| Flower Formula: Sepals x; Petals 0 | Glossary |
| Genus  (Click for Taxon List) |
WI Taxa (map link) |
Photo | Genus Traits | Google Searches |
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| Bolboschoenus
bulrush |
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| Bulbostylis
hair sedge |
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| Carex
sedge |
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| Cladium
sawgrass |
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| Cyperus
flat sedge, galingale, umbrella sedge |
14 | ![]() |
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| Dulichium
pond sedge, three-way sedge pond sedge, three-way sedge |
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| Eleocharis
spike-rush |
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| Eriophorum
bog-cotton, cotton-grass |
7 | ![]() |
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| Fimbristylis
fimbry, fringe-rush |
4 | ![]() |
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| Fuirena
umbrella-sedge |
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| Lipocarpha
sedge |
2 | ![]() |
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| Rhynchospora
beak-rush |
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| Schoenoplectus
bulrush |
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| Scirpus
bulrush |
13 | ![]() |
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| Scleria
nut-rush, razor sedge, stone-rush |
3 | ![]() |
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| Trichophorum
bulrush |
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