Eleocharis is a virtually cosmopolitan genus of 250 or more species of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. The name is derived from the Greek words ἕλειος (heleios), meaning "marsh dweller," and χάρις (charis), meaning "grace." Members of the genus are known commonly as spikerushes or spikesedges. The genus has a geographically cosmopolitan distribution, with centers of diversity in the Amazon rainforest and adjacent eastern slopes of the South American Andes, northern Australia, eastern North America, California, Southern Africa, and subtropical Asia. The vast majority of Eleocharis species grow in aquatic or mesic habitats from sea level to higher than 5,000 meters in elevation.
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Scientists tested ten Australian wetland plants to see which best soak up PFAS 'forever chemicals' from contaminated stormwater, finding that plants with thin, branching roots pulled in the most, and that saltier water weakened their ability to absorb shorter-chain PFAS.
The marshy spikerush patches you might overlook at a pond's edge carry naming histories tangled up in wartime losses, and...
The marshy spikerush patches you might overlook at a pond's edge carry naming histories tangled u...
