Weed
yellow nutsedge
AcheneAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.
Three-sided obovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.
Brown
Smooth with interspersed honeycomb dots with dark borders
Occasional style remnant, occasional enclosing bract.
AchenesAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat. are three-sided, borne between one or two bracts. The smooth surface is covered with underlying dots arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
State Noxious Weed: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Georgia (seed and tuber), Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas
Included
For more information, see ISMA fact sheet, Cyperus spp.
Cyperaceae
Cyperus esculentus L.
