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  • From: yarrow@sfo.com
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Leads or other lists to ask about phragmites for mulch and compost?
  • Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:46:52 -0700

At 12:06 PM -0400 5/21/07, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
Phragmites, duckweed, water lilly, water hyacinth, cattails and some interesting unnamed roundstemmed grasses growing at
or near water's edge are all useful for purifying, clarifying and using up excess nutrients in bodies of fresh water.


The round-stemmed grassy plants are most likely rushes ("sedges have edges, rushes are round") whose name begins with Juncus.




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