Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:

Bulrush with slender upright green stems and small brown seed heads, illustrated in watercolor pencil and watercolor.

Bulrush or bulrush (scirpus), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine

About bulrush:
Bulrush grows in wetland areas and are native in the United States.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons or monocots, having one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in the seed)
Order: Poales
Family: Cyperaceae (sedges)
Genus: Scirpus

More about bulrush:
Scirpus
USGS: Midwestern Wetland Flora (scroll down to "sedges" to see bulrush species)