vegetable-producing plant, root, tuber or bulb sedge plant The *Cyperaceae* are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses and rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the Carex genus of "true sedges"with over 2,000 species. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperaceae] requires discussion