Nutritional Freshwater Life
88
Carex stricta (Lam.)
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Common name: Upright sedge, tussock sedge.
Distribution: Native to central United
States; eastern North America (Missouri
Botanical Garden).
Habitat: Moist marshes, forests, and
alongside bodies of water.
Description: It is a rhizomatous evergreen sedge that grows in dense tussocks (clumps) to 90 cm tall and 60 cm
wide. It is an emergent aquatic. Narrow,
glaucous, grass-like leaves (to 1 cm
wide) grow in dense clumps. Older
leaves turn straw brown as they die, and
build up around the base of each clump
surrounding the newer yellowish green
leaves. Leaves of this species are eaten
raw (Missouri Botanical Garden).
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition (% DM)
Protein
Ash
Fiber
9.94
0.90
29.41
Minerals (% or mg/100 g DM)
Ca (%) P (%)
K (%)
Na (%)
Mg (%) Fe (mg) Mn (mg) Mo (mg)
0.28
0.17
0.52
0.020
0.140
861
185
15.2
Source: Data from Linn et al. (1975).
88
Carex stricta (Lam.)
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae
Common name: Upright sedge, tussock sedge.
Distribution: Native to central United
States; eastern North America (Missouri
Botanical Garden).
Habitat: Moist marshes, forests, and
alongside bodies of water.
Description: It is a rhizomatous evergreen sedge that grows in dense tussocks (clumps) to 90 cm tall and 60 cm
wide. It is an emergent aquatic. Narrow,
glaucous, grass-like leaves (to 1 cm
wide) grow in dense clumps. Older
leaves turn straw brown as they die, and
build up around the base of each clump
surrounding the newer yellowish green
leaves. Leaves of this species are eaten
raw (Missouri Botanical Garden).
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition (% DM)
Protein
Ash
Fiber
9.94
0.90
29.41
Minerals (% or mg/100 g DM)
Ca (%) P (%)
K (%)
Na (%)
Mg (%) Fe (mg) Mn (mg) Mo (mg)
0.28
0.17
0.52
0.020
0.140
861
185
15.2
Source: Data from Linn et al. (1975).