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Californian Sawgrass
Cladium californicum
Cladium californicum is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name California sawgrass. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows in moist areas in a number of habitat types, often in alkaline soils. This is a perennial herb with a hollow, erect, rounded stem one to two meters tall. It grows from rhizomes in dense clumps. The narrow leaves are flat and edged...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76366.