Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses are hollow from node to the ground.
The rhyme is supposed to help me get a grip on the distinctions among Cyperaceae, Juncaceae and Poaceae, with emphasis on the plants used by the restoration team at Sheldon Lake.
Everything that I learned in class each Wednesday was a jumble two hours after I got home. So I was pleased that at least I remembered the poem.
Then I learned there are different versions. Oh, no!
This one is in our notebooks:
Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses have joints, when the cops aren't around.
A simple search turned up:
Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses have nodes where leaves are found.
Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses have joints that your friends pass around.
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| Sedges have edges and other things. White-topped sedge: Rhynchospora colorata / Dichromena colorata |
Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses have joints where elbows are found
What the what?
Here's my version:
Sedges have edges- Lana b.
Rushes are round
Grasses have nodes, moron.
