Schoenoplectus (
club-rush ,
bulrush or
tule ) is a genus of plants in the sedges with a cosmopolitan distribution. Note that the name bulrush is also applied to species in the unrelated genus
Typha as well as to other sedges. The genus
Schoenoplectus was formerly considered part of
Scirpus, but recent phylogenetic data shows that they are not closely related.
(Wikipedia)