Scientific Name:  Cyperus esculentus L. Common Name:  Nutsedge, Yellow
Scientific Family:   Affiliation:  TCE And TTU
Local Names:  Nutgrass Common Family Name:  Sedge
Life Cycle:  Perennial >> Creeping Growth Stage:  Flowering
Environment:  Water Ways, Sorghum Field, Roadsides, Peanut Field, Lawns, Gardens, CRP, Cotton Field, Corn Field, Commercial Vegetables Other:  Slender, three-angled stems one half to two feet tall. Basal leaves except for leaf-like bracts at the seed head. Plants yellow-green. Flowers in dense, yellowish-brown spikelets. Rhizomes radiate from first plant ending in a tuber.