Thursday, August 6, 2015

August 5, 2015


Sedges can be hard to identify. This one, at the end of the boardwalk, may be Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus). We know that the ancient Egyptians used sedges in the genus Cyperus to make papyrus, the progenitor of modern paper and hence the basis for low-cost and easily-accessible written communication.