The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid, monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family contains around 5,500 described species in about 90 genera – the largest being the "true sedges"
Pycreus
Artificial floating island communities made of totora by the Uru peoples in Lake Titicaca
Grass refers to various families of plants. The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses, sedges, and rushes. Lawns and pasturelands are typically composed of true grasses, five of wh
Cyperaceae
…by sedges are known as sedgelands or as sedge meadows. Some species superficially resemble the closely related rushes and the more distantly related grasses. Features distinguishing members of the sedge family from grasses or rushes are stems with triangular cross-sections (with occasional exceptions, a…