sedge

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Backyards full of wispy sedge grass, verdant moss, and wildflower meadows are helping bring gardens and green spaces back to life.

From National Geographic • Jul. 20, 2023

The logs are covered in mulch, on which crews planted more than 30,000 native plants, shrubs and trees: Nootka rose, snowberry, cottonwoods, Lyngbye’s sedge, beach grass.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2023

In the 1990s, the shore was covered with sedge and the lake bottom was strewn with the rounded shells of native mollusks.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 20, 2021

What was once a coastal bay is now dotted with small lakes, peat bogs, and mires with white sphagnum mosses and grassy sedge plants.

From Scientific American • Aug. 13, 2021

He snatched one of the stiff blooms from a nearby clump of sedge and showed it to the old man in explanation.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw