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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. Schoeneae
  8. Saw-sedges

genus

Saw-sedges

Gahnia

Traits
Includes
2 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Red-berried Saw-sedge native
  • Thatch Saw-sedge
  • Tall Saw-sedge
  • Cutty Grass
  • Razor Sedge
  • Chaffy Saw-sedge
  • Cutting Sedge
  • Uki native
  • Fijian Sawsedge native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Grasses and sedges
Plant type
Ornamental grasses and sedges Perennial

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native saw-sedges All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Uki Gahnia beecheyi
  • Fijian Sawsedge Gahnia vitiensis
  • Red-berried Saw-sedge Gahnia aspera

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