Northern Shorthusk--Brachyleytrum aristosum
How does that poem go again? While I’ve given up on identifying New Hampshire’s woodland thrice cut ferns, I am still working on identifying NH’s native sedges, rushes, and grasses. But what is the word that rhymes with “grasses?”
I realized I needed that poem when I was using the iNaturalist app in the swampy unmowed green by Brookside’s parking lot. Barely moving a quarter turn, I had photographed two sedges and a rush huddled together, celebrating their reprieve from Grantham’s mower and congratulating each other on their contribution to biodiversity at Brookside Park. I found a grass on a subsequent visit, easily recognized with the help of an Illinois Extension Blog that quoted the poem in full:
Sedges have edges,
Rushes are round,
Grasses have nodes from the top to the ground
https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/grasses-glance/2023-04-17-telling-apart-grasses-sedges-rushes
I realized I needed that poem when I was using the iNaturalist app in the swampy unmowed green by Brookside’s parking lot. Barely moving a quarter turn, I had photographed two sedges and a rush huddled together, celebrating their reprieve from Grantham’s mower and congratulating each other on their contribution to biodiversity at Brookside Park. I found a grass on a subsequent visit, easily recognized with the help of an Illinois Extension Blog that quoted the poem in full:
Sedges have edges,
Rushes are round,
Grasses have nodes from the top to the ground
https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/grasses-glance/2023-04-17-telling-apart-grasses-sedges-rushes
Sallow Sedge--Carex lurida
Black-girdle Bulrush--Scirpus atrocinctus
Fringed Sedg--Carex crinita
Northern Shorhus--Brachyelytrum aristosum--Note the sedge edging its way into the picture at the upper left