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Botanical details
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Cyperus
- Genus description
Cyperus can be annuals or evergreen, rhizomatous perennials, with linear, grass-like leaves and terminal clusters of small greenish flower-spikes with spreading leaf-like bracts beneath
- Name status
Correct
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