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Some other sedgeheads and me have worked together to create an email system so we can email each other about sedges. I'm at the core of the group, and manage the email for the group. Not many people are specialists in sedges, and I'm the world's expert on the genus Carex in Arkansas! That's not hard to do. It is like being the world's expert on sedges in Jiangsu Province. If there's only one person studying something in one province, they are the best. Here's a few photos I posted to the group today.
02APR2012: Carex blanda growing by my hat!
02APR2012: Only a botanist can appreciate the technical terms!
02APR2012: More botany stuff!
02APR2012: Cotter, Arkansas, USA. See other photos of this park in this album.
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- Reply Hans
- Sedge is a plant that looks like grass and grows in wet ground. But I don't know what "sedgehead" and "Carex "mean. Can you tell me? Are you good at growing flowers and grass? Why do you say "It is like being the world's expert on sedges in Jiangsu Province", I don't understand this . I am from Jiangsu Province.
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- Hans: Sedge is a plant that looks like grass and grows in wet ground. But I don't know what "sedgehead" and "Carex "mean. Can you tell mA sedge is kind a plant. Notice that I did not say, “Sedge is a kind of plant.” You can also say, “Sedges are plants.” Sedges do look like grasses that sedges usually have triangular stems and grasses usually have round stems. There are other differences between these two families of plants. The majority of sedge species are associated the water but many times grow in other habitats including dry rocky outcrops, alpine meadows, lawns, grasslands, and upland forested habitat.
The word Sedgehead is like the word motorhead. People who are interested in working on cars in motors are sometimes called motorheads. Botanists modified the name to apply to people who study sedges. I didn’t like the name it first but I claimed it in 1995 on the internet and now if you search the internet for Sedgehead you will often find something related to me. The genus Carex is a type of sedge. They are very common plants in most areas outside of the tropics or the polar regions. For example, 131 kinds grow in my home state of Arkansas.
I was comparing Jiangsu Province with the U.S. state of Arkansas. Jiangsu may only have one are two people who are interested in sedges. So if you become an expert in sedges and you live in Jiangsu Province you can become the world’s expert on the sedges of Jiangsu Province in the same way that I have become the world’s expert on the sedges of Arkansas.
