Sour grasses in the German linguistic area different plant families are called (see: Sour grasses (plant families)). In the actual sense, also or is however with it the family of the Cyperaceae meant mentioned. They educated so far the only plant family from the order of the sour-grass-well-behaved (Cyperales). New molecular-biological investigations place it however to the order of the sweet-grass-well-behaved. The family is arranged into 98 kinds with 4350 kinds. The emphasis of their spreading lies in of moderate to subarctic range both hemispheres. The kinds grow predominantly on wet soils and are sometimes Torfbildner.

Description

Sour grasses are plants mostly of several years with grass-like Habitus. The stem is substantial and/or markig, thus not hollow, never with knots and often three-sharp-edged (consider these contrasts to the sweet grasses). The sheets are grass-like narrow, with closed or rarely also open Blattscheiden. The blooms are inconspicuous and either zwittrig or in-sexually as They stand to many to individual in spikelets. The spikelets are individual or to several in ears, Rispen or arranged. The fruit is a nut.

Systematics

Kinds of the sour grasses with representatives in Central Europe:

• Seggen (Carex),
• Windshield frame sections (Scirpus),
• (Eriophorum),
• Sumpfbinsen (Eleocharis),
• Teichbinsen (Schoenoplectus),
• Cyprus grasses (Cyperus),
• Moorbinsen (Isolepis),
• Quellbinsen (Blysmus),
• Strandbinsen (Bolboschoenus),
• Rasenbinsen (Trichophorum),
• Schnabelried (Rhynchospora),
• Kopfried (Schoenus),
• Schneidried (Cladium),
• Naked /Schuppenried (Kobresia).

Sometimes colloquially also the (Juncaceae) is called sour grasses. This is due to the actually correct use of the term "sour grasses" only for the family Cyperaceae however misleading. Correct it is however that sour grasses and Binsen, which belonged in former times to a common systematic putting above (Juncanae), are more near related than with the sweet grasses.

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Literature

• Eleven-rune Wendelberger: Plants of the humid areas - waters, moorlands, Auen, good mountain, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7632-3265-6 (and/or BLV publishing house, ISBN 3-405-12967-2)

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Cyperaceen on-line one - an on-line regulation course for sour grasses

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