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Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

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Water-loving grasses

Various species (e.g., Spartina, Phragmites, Typha, Carex)

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Japanese Sweet Flag / Dwarf Japanese Sweetflag

Acorus gramineus

Water-loving Sedges

Carex spp. (aquatic and wetland species)

Water Sedge

Carex aquatilis

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Weeping Brown Sedge

Carex flagellifera

Westerwolds Ryegrass

Lolium multiflorum var. westerwoldicum

Wet-soil Sedges

Carex species (various)

Wheatgrass

Triticum aestivum

Wheatgrass

Triticum aestivum

White Carpet

Dymondia margaretae

White Clover

Trifolium repens

White Clover 'Ladino'

Trifolium repens subsp. giganteum

White Clover 'New Zealand White'

Trifolium repens 'New Zealand White'

White Dutch Clover

Trifolium repens

Widgeongrass

Ruppia maritima

Wild Boar Grass

Sorghastrum nutans

Woodland Grasses

Luzula, Carex, Deschampsia, and related genera

Woodland Sedge

Carex laxiculmis

Wool Grass

Scirpus cyperinus

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Woolly sedge

Carex lanuginosa

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