Bulrushes
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 England, bulrush is the common name for what Americans tend to call "cattail" or Typha.
- In the U.S., 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.
