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More important, #today, than the #compost cages was the progress made on clearing all the #grass, #reed and #sedge that had been strimmed last #Saturday.

The first image was taken at 09:47 and the filled compost bins at 11:01. I was pleased with what I had achieved.

A fully loaded wheelbarrow, on a path beside a lake, about to be moved to dump its contents in the compost bins.

The compost bins before anything was added to them today.

Two compost bins made of old pallets filled to capacity with the overflow piled in the foreground.

The bank and path to the house is now clear of all that was strimmed on the lake bank.

Last Saturday was spent clearing the bank of the #lake behind our house. It took an hour to do the #strimming and the rest of the #daylight #hours to remove the the chopped reed from the lake and half of the #grass, #sedge and #reed from the bank. What we did manage to clear was piled in our #compost bins.

the bank of a lake with a field beyond. The bank has a lot of grass, sedge and reed about to be mown.

The bank of the lake viewed an hour later after all the vegetation had been strimmed.

The stern of a dinghy, filled with twigs and chopped reed recovered from the lake.

The lake with a a lot of chopped reed in it following the strimming of the bank.

Staying at Cors Goch, here are two #wetland plants from that #nature reserve. On the left, Common #Cottongrass—not a grass, but a #sedge, with distinctive 'cotton wool ball' seed heads. On the right, Marsh #Cinquefoil, a.k.a. Swamp Cinquefoil or Purple Marshlocks.

#Flora #Wildlflowers #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

Two photos combined. Left: Common Cottongrass, Eriophorum angustifolium. Here we see the upper part of one plant, the stem of which sports half a dozen drooping, fluffy seed heads each consisting of a mass of fine white filaments and looking superficially like a ball of cotton wool. The leaves of other bog plants can be seen in the background. Right: Marsh Cinquefoil, Comarum palustre (formerly Potentilla palustris). Again we see the upper part of the plant, and in particular two reddish-coloured, hairy stems each bearing three flowers at various stages from unopened buds to one which has fruited. Each flower has five pointed, almost triangular, petal-like sepals, which are a deep, purplish-red colour; appearing in the gaps between these are the actual petals, which are much smaller and of the same colour; from the centre of the flower rise about 20 stamens. One of the flowers has produced a fruiting body; partially enclosed within the sepals it is almost strawberry-like in appearance.

Any #sedge fans out there have any idea why Carex eburnea came to have the common name "Ivory Sedge"?

It's also called "Ebony sedge", which I assume is a reference to the deep brown colour of the achenes, which split out of the perigynia and are clearly visible when mature.

#botany

Carex haematostoma, also known as hong zui tai cao in #China, is a #tussock-forming species of perennial #sedge in the family #Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of central #Asia and China.

Spent flower/seed head of Pennsylvania sedge

#sedge #NativePlants #flower #Photography #nature

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/bearded-flatsedge-rediscovered-in-forest-monitoring-program/102611534

#Botany #beardedflatsedge #sedge #bloomscrolling

Second photo #HildaEileenRamsay's 1951 bearded flatsedge specimen is housed in the State Botanical Collection.(Supplied: Royal #BotanicGardens Victoria)

More: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005949b.htm

Not nuts. Tubers of Cyperus esculentus, #sedge family, known (where I live) as Tiger Nuts, 'also called chufa, atadwe, yellow nutsedge, earth almond, and in Chishona, pfende.' The plant does not tolerate salinity. These are imported from Burkina Faso. #botany #agriculture

roughly spherical faceted brown-white balls (tubers), some with small creases and facets from the drying process (usually dried in the sun). With the packet which says they have been blanched.

Great Reedmace in the margins of the Loch which is covered in Lily pads
#sedge
#nature
#photography
#Scotland

🤸 It's alive! 🎉

@plants, please meet my Cyperus alternifolius (syn.: C. flabelliformis) that has survived its fourth winter outside in Denmark. I actually thought it was dead after the winter this year, and had started contemplating what else to plant in that corner, but today I noticed three strong shoots (of which two are seen on the attached photo). Yay!

The previous four summers it has grown to 175+ cm during the growth season, only to have all greenery killed by frost during the winter.

See parent post for how the papyrus ended up outside in the first place.

/cc [ #Cyperus | #Cyperaceae | #papyrus | #sedge | #gardening ]

Two rather strong shoots of umbrella sedge is emerging among dead stubs and leaves from last year, seen against a blackish house wall.
In the lower left corner a single green leaf of ivy-leaved toadflax.

Pennsylvania #sedge blooming, Maple Grove Forest Preserve. Spring peepers calling, white trout Lily and false mermaid in bloom as well.

#phenology #fieldnotes #carex

#Pond ... #Sedge ... #Reeds ... #Reflections ... #Tranquility

#Photography #SamsungNX #NX30 #KitLens

A closeup on a lovely bunch of Carex rostrata aka the beaked sedge growing near the pond's shore, surrounded by partially submerged tree stumps.

A small islet of Phragmites australis subsp. australis aka the Eurasian common reeds in the middle of a pond

Carex rostrata aka the beaked sedge in the foreground with a small bunch of Phragmites australis subsp. australis or Eurasian common reed in the back of the pond with some early spring hills in the backdrop.

The #ClimateCrisis requires #OpenAccess 💚

Sequestering #ClimateChange science behind a paywall does NOT aid in the global dissemination of #EcosystemDynamics

#Sedge
Schoenoplectus americanus
#Carbon #CriticalZone
#CoastalWetlands
#ClimateJustice

Rapid plant trait evolution can alter coastal wetland resilience to sea level rise

Hello? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq0595

This morning in Maple Grove: early shoots on James' #sedge, first mourning dove calls that I've heard this year, chickadees singing, strong odor of skunk in the neighborhood. It seems about right for mid February in DuPage County.

#phenology #fieldNotes

Carex jamesii, new shoot surrounded by last year's leaf bases.

I call this plant Fizzgig

@plants #garden #sedge

The transplanted #DevilsBitScabious and #Lousewort #Wildflowers are still doing OK. They have shrunk with the cold weather or rather grass has taking a headstart.

I intend to mow again in the spring to restore more light to the soil with the hope of helping more germination of the seed I spread.

(Some #spearwort and #sedge there too.)

Another small thing. It's an idea for a font if there are any font designers watching. This is the triangular section of a Brown Sedge stem. "Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses have nodes all the way to the ground." Sort of. #Photography #Macro #Sedge #Carex #disticha #Font

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