''Bolboschoenus'' is a

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of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads. ; Accepted species * ''

Bolboschoenus caldwellii ''Bolboschoenus caldwellii'', commonly known as marsh club rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is ...

'' (V.J.Cook) Soják - Australia, New Zealand * '' Bolboschoenus capensis'' (Burm.f.) Holub - Cape Province of South Africa * '' Bolboschoenus fluviatilis'' (Torr.) Soják - Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Canada, United States, northeastern Mexico * '' Bolboschoenus glaucus'' (Lam.) S.G.Sm. - southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, Mongolia * '' Bolboschoenus grandispicus'' (Steud.) Lewej. & Lobin - coastal dunes in Senegal * '' Bolboschoenus laticarpus'' Marhold, Hroudová, Ducháček & Zákr - central Europe from Britain and France to Ukraine; Algeria, Turkey * '' Bolboschoenus maritimus'' (L.) Palla in W.D.J.Koch - widespread across much of temperate and subtropical Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and various islands * ''

Bolboschoenus medianus ''Bolboschoenus medianus'' is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species ...

'' (V.J.Cook) Soják - Australia, New Zealand * '' Bolboschoenus nobilis'' (Ridl.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson - Angola, Namibia * ''

Bolboschoenus novae-angliae ''Bolboschoenus novae-angliae'', common names New England bulrush, and Salt march bulrush is a plant species found along the Atlantic seacoast of the United States from Alabama to Maine (although there are no records of the plant from South ...

'' (Britton) S.G.Sm. - northeastern United States from Maine south along the seacoast to Georgia * '' Bolboschoenus planiculmis'' (F.Schmidt) T.V.Egorova - much of Europe and Asia from Spain to Japan and south to New Guinea * '' Bolboschoenus robustus'' (Pursh) Soják - eastern United States; California, Bermuda, Bahamas, east coast of Mexico (from Tamaulipas to Tabasco), New Brunswick, northern South America * '' Bolboschoenus schmidii'' (Raymond) Holub - Iran, Central Asia * '' Bolboschoenus stagnicola'' (Raymond) Soják. - Pakistan * '' Bolboschoenus yagara'' (Ohwi) Y.C.Yang & M.Zhan - northern Eurasia from Germany and Sweden to Japan and Kamchatka, including Russia, Siberia, China

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Cyperaceae genera Taxa named by Paul Friedrich August Ascherson Taxa named by Eduard Palla {{Cyperaceae-stub