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Welcome to the Ontario Grasses, Sedges & Rushes website!
Your "online field guide" to Ontario's grasses, sedges and rushes

This website is all about grasses, sedges & rushes that grow in Ontario (Canada).
If you're not from Ontario, don't go away! Most of the plants featured on this website grow elsewhere in eastern North America, and many grow elsewhere in the world.

Please note ... this is *NOT* a website about the type of "grass"
that some people smoke to get high!! :)

What's New
(36 species now on this site,  31 species still to come)

• Jun 28/09: Name Search: You can now search for a Common Name, Latin Name or French Name.
• Apr 12/08: Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Bottle-brush Grass (Elymus hystrix), Canada Wild Rye (Elymus canadensis), Great Lakes Wheat Grass (Elymus lanceolatus), Phragmites (Phragmites australis), Kalm's Brome (Bromus kalmii), Rice Cut Grass (Leersia oryzoides), Sand Dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), Tall Cord Grass (Spartina pectinata), Baltic Rush (Juncus balticus), Golden Sedge (Carex aurea), Hairy Wood Sedge (Carex hirtifolia), Hoary Sedge (Carex canescens), Lake Sedge (Carex lacustris), Long-stalked Sedge (Carex pedunculata), Plantain-leaved Sedge (Carex plantaginea), Schweinitz's Umbrella Sedge (Cyperus schweinitzii), Umbrella Sedge (Cyperus bipartitus), Three-way Sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum), Tuckerman's Sedge (Carex tuckermanii)

Tall Cord Grass (Spartina pectinata)