### plant | tracheophyte | hydrophytic plant:

Sedge
* Most sedges occur naturally in bogs, damp woodlands or by water and prefer a moist soil.
* appreciate midday shade in the hottest climates.
* are favorite spring foods
  - grass-like plants, mostly preferring sites with moist, rich soil
  - important to man as soil anchors and land builders in lowlands
* are in a group that is distinct from monocots and dicots
  - the bottoms of microdepressions
  - marsh plants
  - similar in many respects to grasses and are frequently called grass-like
  - some of the only native cool season grasses that are abundant here
* do however have a considerable amount of ecological importance
  - well where soil has poor drainage
* dominate the vegetation.
* grow in marshy places, and moose are particularly fond of grazing on plants that grow there.
* have a characteristic fruit near the tip called an achene
  - superficial resemblance to grasses
  - triangular stem
  - considerable economic and ecological importance
  - edges, rushes are round, and grasses like asses have holes
* occur in many areas.
* replace grasses which prefer warmer, dryer conditions.
* respond satisfactorally to traditional grazing systems designed for upland species.
* tend to have angled stems.
* typically thrive in wet areas that are over watered or have poor drainage.
* usually turn brown for the winter but grow back when the weather warms.
* wrens prefer sedge and freshwater meadows where grasses and sedges grow with scattered shrubs.

### plant | tracheophyte | hydrophytic plant | sedge:

Chufa
* can grow to three feet in height.
* makes an excellent supplementary winter food source.
* requires good nitrogen availability.

Elk sedge
* has a solitary spike with a dark brown flower head at the top.
* tends to occur more frequently on the dry phases of the wetter habitat types.

### plant | tracheophyte | hydrophytic plant | sedge | nutsedge:

Purple nutsedge
* can reproduce by seeds and underground rhizomes.
* has strings of tubers on wiry rhizomes.
* is considered the world's worst weed
  - known as the world's worst weed
* produces chains of tubers that develop along the entire rhizome.

Umbrella plant
* Most umbrella plants produce flowers.
* is semi-aquatic and requires a very moist soil and a medium light exposure.
* spreads by rhizomes and can be aggressive in very moist soil.

### plant | tracheophyte | hydrophytic plant | sedge:

Water chestnut
* are aquatic plants
  - part of water chestnuts
  - the edible tubers of a water plant
* belongs to the family, Onagraceae.
* can float freely or be rooted to bottom sediments
  - reproduce both sexually and asexually
* grows in freshwater lakes and ponds and slow moving streams and rivers.
* is an emersed or floating plant.
* is an invasive aquatic plant
* nuisance aquatic plant that limits boating and fishing in infested areas.
* small, tough, leafy rooted plant which grows on shallow flats.

### plant | tracheophyte | hydrophytic plant:

Skunk cabbage
* are marsh plants.
* big, stemless plant usually found in swamps.
* generates heat in the flower and stinks to attract flies.
* grows early in the spring and even melts snow as it comes up from underground
  - in wet places in usually deciduous woods
* has a soft stem.
* is found in Asia and North America
  - one of the first plants to come out in spring
  - shaped likea leafy cabbage head
* low-growing herbaceous plant found in swamps, wet woods and stream borders.
* starts to smell after parts of the plant become broken or bruised.

Sweet flag
* hydrophytic plant
* is propagated by rhizome division.

Turtlehead
* add vertical form and late summer color in moist, shady gardens.
* does well along a stream or pond, in a perennial bed, or in a wild garden.
* has dark green foliage and a dense, upright growth habit.