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Rice Flatsedge
Cyperus iria L.
Cyperaceae (Sedge Family)
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Rice
Flatsedge:
summer annual sedge found in wetter row crops, nurseries, growing in
clumps 6-24” tall
stems triangular; leaves medium to light green, sometimes with
pine-needle-like odor
inflorescence a branched, green to silvery green panicle
doesn’t have the rhizomes or tubers found on
yellow
nutsedge or
purple nutsedge