sedges

• What at first sight appeared an unending expanse of sand or soil was a ubiquitous brown lichen, supplemented in fertile stretches by thick mats of mosses, sedges, and dwarf trees. —  FSF, August 2006
• Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum, non-selective herbicide commonly used on perennial plants including grasses, sedges, and broad-leaved weeds.
• Water-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air. —  Hunting the Lions
• We thrust the bow of the wherry into a bunch of sedges, and then we sat down to our meal, surrounded by hundreds of blue dragon-flies, that flitted about as if to inquire what we meant by intruding upon their domiciles. —  Jacob Faithful
• Very few of the sedges are of any economic importance, though one, the papyrus of Egypt, was formerly much valued for its pith, which was manufactured into paper The second family, the grasses, on the contrary, includes the most important of all food plants, all of the grains belonging here. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses

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