Sentence examples for river bulrush from inspiring English sources

Within its drainage basin of 307 square miles (795 square km) are more than 30 square miles (78 square km) of wetlands, supporting such rare plants as the great laurel rhododendron, dragon's-mouth, and river bulrush.

This study is one of the first attempts to design and develop an innovative approach dynamic flux bag (DFB) technique to measure in situ mercury air vegetation exchange with a monoculture of river bulrush (Scirpus fluviatilis).

Widely found native reeds, sedges and rushes along the upper river are bulrush, knobby club rush, spike rush, common reed, sea rush and pale rush.

This stretch of picturesque river has banks full of bulrushes and has remained untouched for the past fifty years … until now.

Moving through a series of rectangular ponds, river water filters slowly through thickets of cattails and bulrushes meant to extract excess nitrate from upstream dairy farms and sewage-treatment plants.

Whether there ever was a stricken plane, or any fugitive pilot, was unresolved well into the night, when soldiers with rifles were still firing into the riverbank bulrushes and setting them afire, and powerboats with frogmen were still cruising the river, searchlights scanning for the pilot.

In the morning, I stood on the balcony and looked down at the river, which loops gradually to the southwest and is dotted here and there with islets of green bulrushes.

She looked across the empty river where very few boats now run, and watched a heron glide to land on a clump of bulrushes.

Water bulrush, water willow.

Holmb., bulrush Schoenoplectus lacustris (L).

RIVER TO RIVER, June 17-July 15.