Yellow Nutsedge
Cyperus esculentus
Summary 2
Cyperus esculentus (or chufa sedge, nut grass, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, or earth almond) is a crop of the family sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It can be found wild, as a weed or as a crop. It has been cultivated since the fourth millennium BC in Egypt, and for several centuries in Southern Europe. Nowadays it is often cultivated for its edible tubers (tigernuts), mainly in Spain for...
Synonym 3
C. aureus Tenore, Fl. napol. Prodr. "I.(1811) VIII." Holm & al., World's Worst Weeds: fig. 46. 1977. Haines & Lye, Sedges and Rushes E. Afr.: figs. 372 & 373. 1983.
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