The river channel meanders through wide tidal freshwater marshes of cattail and sedges, with stands of saltmarsh cordgrass along the upper banks. |
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The precise detail in illustrations of flowers and seeds of sedges and rushes are a valuable aid with their identification. |
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Mallards are omnivorous, eating seeds, stems, and roots from a variety of aquatic plants, especially sedges, grasses, pondweeds, and smartweeds. |
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Dry grasses and some sedges cover the meadow during the dry season when I conducted this study. |
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Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs. |
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While most sedges possess triangular stems, its stem is round in cross section. |
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I've planted cannas, water lettuce, nymphaeas, sedges, and waterlilies in my water gardens. |
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Terrestrial annuals represented a diverse group of species, with 60 of them classified as herbs, 18 as sedges and 17 as grasses. |
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Plant matter usually consists of the seeds of grasses, sedges, and pond-weeds. |
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There's the blue and white of bluebells and wood anemones, celandines and sedges, orchids, and especially good ferns. |
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Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge. |
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Grasses, sedges and bamboos are grown mostly for their foliage and anything that enhances that effect is worth having. |
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Monocots comprise one-quarter of all flowering plant species, most of these are orchids, grasses, sedges, palms, and aroids. |
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges. |
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Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur. |
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The area will be richly planted with trees, shrubs, ferns, sedges and rushes. |
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Several sedges and rushes from the marsh grow entangled beneath the shrubs. |
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Digging deeper, he would have found long-dormant seeds of marsh sedges and the sleeping rhizomes of tules and cattails. |
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Pendulous sedges crowded the footpath, fungi sprouted in brown, black, orange and white. |
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Deer browsed selectively on prairie forbs but not on prairie grasses or sedges. |
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I have read that they especially like the seeds of vervain, smart weed and sedges. |
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Lough Carra had small hatches of mayfly, olives and sedges over the week, with fishing described as patchy, with some anglers having good sport. |
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Beneath the woody plants grow netted chain fern, cinnamon fern, sensitive fern, and various sedges and rushes. |
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Two species of sedges that form cottony seed masses are called cotton grass. |
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In this subzone, herbaceous dicots, grasses, rushes, and cryptogams are dominant, and woody plants and sedges are absent. |
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Food is mainly roots, leaves, stems and shoots of grasses, reeds and sedges. |
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The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce. |
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On the Surrey-Sussex borders salmon are fairly regularly caught on dry flies, particularly sedges. |
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Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges, with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks. |
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Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges. |
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They nest on the ground, among sedges or grasses close to water. |
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The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder. |
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Across South America, fiber string is traditionally made not only from palms but also from sedges, succulent plants, cotton, and even a wild relative of the pineapple. |
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Marl prairie is a relatively diverse floristic association dominated by grasses, sedges, and rushes growing on thin limestone soils that are seasonally flooded. |
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A stream runs along the western edge of the reserve, providing habitat for a different community of plants including sedges, yellow iris and amphibious bistort. |
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In a study on Devon Island, just south of Ellesmere, the hares fed mainly on Arctic willow in winter, supplemented in summer with Arctic avens, grasses and sedges. |
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The cover of ferns, woody plants, and sedges was excluded from our analysis because their average covers were extremely low and most plot values were zero. |
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At Magela Creek, northern Australia, hydrophilic palms and mangroves proximal to the waterhole give way to fire-prone sedges, grasses and paperbark on the dry floodbasin. |
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Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows. |
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It is a sad and spectral landscape of thin, undulating, sandy soils, pine trees, reeds, broom, sedges and whispering dry grasses, under those endless, two-tone Russian skies. |
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Or climate warming could be accelerating the rate at which marsh plants such as cattails, bulrushes, and sedges invade ponds and convert them to meadows. |
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For example, Himalayan snowcocks, a bird that feeds on grasses, forbs, and sedges, are more vulnerable to raptorial predators in areas where they can forage most efficiently. |
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For example, cattails, bulrushes, cordgrass, sphagnum moss, bald cypress, willows, mangroves, sedges, rushes, arrowheads, and water plantains usually occur in wetlands. |
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Chromosomes evolve more dynamically in sedges than in any other group of flowering plants. |
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Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range. |
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Pollen analysis shows a prevalence of grasses and sedges within a more complicated vegetation mosaic. |
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Some moors are covered by a variety of grasses and sedges, while others are dominated by heather. |
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In tundra, the vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. |
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The legumes spread, while sedges, bulrushes, and ferns continued their ascent. |
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However, they also eat the leaves of willows and birches, as well as sedges and grasses. |
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Rushes of the genus Juncus are herbaceous plants that superficially resemble grasses or sedges. |
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Identification of potential species Croton bonplandianum, sedges and Balanitis aegyptiaca for the application of phytoremediation. |
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Gorillas frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open sky. |
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These peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and carnivorous plants. |
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Familiar examples include cattails, sedges, papyrus and sawgrass. |
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As with any fire, blackboys and sedges were the first to grow, little else appearing before the first rains, which were followed by a flush of herbaceous shoots. |
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This method of digestion would have required a large throughput of food and thus links the large mouthful size to the low nutritive content of the chosen grasses and sedges. |
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The form of the flower differentiates rushes from grasses or sedges. |
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