Sedge
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A sedge is any one of the many plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.
Sedge may also mean:
- Plants
- Sedge, an informal name for sweet flag (Acorus calamus), a marshland plant
- Sedge, an informal name for yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus), a marshland plant
- Sedge, Sedge mire, or poor fen: a bed of sedges or similar plants, usually growing in damp ground or shallow water.
- Animals
- Sedges or sedge-flies, an alternative name for the caddisflies (Trichoptera), a group of small moth-like insects with aquatic larvae
- Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), a small bird found in dense waterside vegetation in Europe, Asia and Africa
- Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis), a small wetland species of bird found in North and South America
- Places
- Sedge Island, an island in the Falklands archipelago