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Bulrush
The term bulrush (or sometimes as bullrush) typically refers to tall, herbaceous plants that grow in wetlands. However, as a common name for a plant, bulrush can mean very different things in different parts of the world.
- In British English, bulrush is the common name for Typha, called "cattail" in American English.
- In American English, a bulrush is any one of several plants in the family Cyperaceae, typically of the genus Scirpus, Bolboschoenus, or Schoenoplectus.
- Rushes are similar plants classified in the family Juncaceae
- In the Bible the infant Moses was found among the bulrushes, a reference to Cyperus papyrus.
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