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[Keith Johnson <kd.johnson@insightbb.com>]

Typha is cattails or bullrush as they are known in elsewhere.
Scirpus is one of the many sedges also know as bullrush. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scirpus
Juncus consists of about 225 species of grassy plants commonly called 
*rushes* (common names can be so 
confusing).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juncus

There's a mnemonic for this:

Sedges have edges
and rushes are round
and grasses, like asses, have holes.

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> No one mentioned cattails which are among
> the hardiest of plants suited for very wet conditions. 
>
> What are the full Latin and common names for these plants:
>
> Juncus, Scirpus and Typha


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