Grasses and Grass-like Plants

Grass-like plants
Grass-like plants in a sedge meadow. Most of the sedges are Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta) and the grasses are Bluejoint grass (Calamagrostis canadensis).

Grass-like plants also called graminoids, are some of the most important members of wetland plant communities and include the true grasses, sedges, cattails, burreeds etc.

Common or Giant Bur-reed (Sparganium eurycarpum)

Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea

Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta)

Canada Bluejoint Grass (Calamagrostis canadensis)

Creeping Spikerush (Eleocharis palustris)

Common Reed (Phragmites australis)

River Bulrush (Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) A. Gray)

Wool-grass (Scirpus cyprinus)

Broadleaf Cattail (Typha latifolia)

Invasive Cattail Species Narrowleaf Cattail (Typha angustifolia) Hybrid Cattail (Typha x glauca)

White Beak-Rush (Rhynchospora alba)

Threesquare Bulrush (Scirpus pungens)

Burreed Seeds
Seeds (achens) of Common Burreed, Sparganium eurycarpum