Whats this?

[Dan Sander]

I don't think it is a burr. The head is soft and no stickers...

[Jeager]

Looks like it might be: http://www.biologicalsurveys.com/ima...xiana%20RP.jpg


If not that, then possibly Appalachian Sedge.

[Dan Sander]

What is that stuff? I am pretty sure it is not the same though. It looks way to tall and the head appears to come from a central stalk. My mystery plant is very low lying and the heads branch out new stalks forming new heads from the head node. The plant has several sporatic nodes..

I read the discription for Appalachian sedge which says it is a dry woodland plant and from the pics I looked at doesnt appear to have nodes. My plant thrives in the exact opposite... water!

[Jeager]

The picture is Michaux's Sedge. Both with will grow in wetlands. Either way one of the sedges is most likely your "mystery plant".

[smsmith]

I think criggster's possible solution was best. Get some sedgehammer and see if it kills it - if it does - it's some kind of sedge.

[Geo]

I have poured out a bunch of round up, and criggster is right, sedge comes RR.

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