Elegia
Stock photos of plants of the genus Elegia. This southern African genus is made up of clump-forming reeds that often resemble horsetails (Equisetum), with erect stems topped with brownish to yellow plume-like flowerheads. Often slow-growing when young, with age they can become large plants. In their homelands some species have been used as roof thatching. This genus has been revised several times and it, and several closely related genera, such as Chondropetalum, Ischyrolepis, Rhodocoma and Thamnochortus, are sure to be the subject of further revisions as they are studied more closely.
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