Glossary entry

Swedish term or phrase:

starrtuvor

English translation:

sedgegrass tussock

Added to glossary by SafeTex
Mar 7, 2016 18:13
8 yrs ago
Swedish term

starrtuvor

Swedish to English Other Environment & Ecology starrtuvor
Hello

I've got a number of hits but none of them in a dictionary unfortunately

I vissa partier stöter du på sumpskog med gran och björk samt höga ***starrtuvor*** som tillsammans med björk- och videbuskar ibland bildar svårframkomliga snår

I have also found pictures such as

http://docplayer.se/docs-images/17/140202/images/13-0.jpg

but there is about as much chance of me recognising a species of rush as of me going to the moon :(

Can anyone bail me out pleeeaasseee

Thanks

Proposed translations

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sedgegrass tussock

Some reading that gives u the specifics. I'd go with the broad category here, as most readers understand as 'some kind of grass' and still it is a technical name of the 'largest group of 'starrarter'
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to everyone. I choose 'sedgegrass' but that was a bit arbitrary."
16 mins

tussock grass

Perhaps.
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56 mins

sedge tussocks

Starr = Carex = Sedge

See Wikipedia (EN & SV)

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Note added at 57 mins (2016-03-07 19:11:30 GMT)
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And Google examples here https://www.google.se/?gws_rd=ssl#q="sedge tussocks"
Peer comment(s):

agree Deane Goltermann : haha Agneta, looks like yuo beat me by a few minutes...
6 mins
Quite!
agree Michele Fauble
22 hrs
Thanks Michele!
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13 hrs

sedge tufts / tufts of sedge

This is how I'd say it - several references available, e.g.

http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/spiked-sedge
Peer comment(s):

neutral Agneta Pallinder : To me there is a difference between tufts (the strands of sedge growth) and tussocks (the accumulation of the sedge and sedge roots that you can actually stand on when traversing a bog) and the latter is a "tuva".
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