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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V3 #281
On Sat., 23 May 1998, Roger S. Miller wrote:
>On Sat, 23 May 1998, Kevin Gilpin wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get more information about the plant Cyperus Helferi.
>> I have not seen it in any of the plant books I own. Amano uses it
>I can't address Cyperus helferi directly, but plants in genus Cyperus
>are sedges (usually, grass-like plants common to marshy areas). Rataj
>and Horeman (of current controversy) describe the genus generally but
detail
>only one species (eragrostis). Eleocharis is also in the same family.
Neil Hotchkiss (in the less-controversial Common Marsh, Underwater &
Floating-leaved Plants of the United States And Canada) also describes only
one species (erythrorhyzos), but says of the genus:
"More than a dozen other kinds of Cyperus grow in marshes, along the edge of
marshes, or on the shores of lakes, ponds, and streams"
Doesn't sound like a low-light situation to me.
Steve Gates