Yellow Nutsedge

Cyperaceae

LIFE FORM:Perennial

NATIVITY: Eurasia and North America

VEGETATIVE CHARACTERISTICS:

Grows to about a foot tall; grass-like leaves are yellow-green, flat and shiny.

FLOWERS:

Yellowish spikelets near the top of the stem.

FRUIT/DISPERSAL AGENTS:

Once established, it spreads rapidly from underground tubers to form large clumps.

ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCE:

Minimally maintained public parks and open space; abandoned grasslands (meadows); freshwater wetlands, ponds and streams.

ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTION:

Food and/or habitat for wildlife.

CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The underground tubers of this plant are supposedly edible.