Tropical Flat Sedge Scientific Name: Cyperus surinamensis
Distinguishing Characteristics:
•Like other flat sedges, stems are solid and triangular in cross-section.
•Long, narrow leaf blades coming up from base and drooping over.
•Seedheads of densly-packed, flattened, serrated, traingular spikelets
•Clustered along shoreline or can form dense, grassy thickets in moist to shallow water.



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