Bolboschoenus is a genus of plants in the sedge family, of nearly cosmopolitan distribution.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Hroudová, Z., Gregor, T. & Zákravsky, P. (2009). Die verbreitung von Bolboschoenus-Arten in Deutschland. Kochia 4: 1-22. Epipaleolithic and Neolithic peoples used ground root tubers of these plants to make the first breads.
Accepted species Bolboschoenus caldwellii (V.J.Cook) Soják – Australia, New Zealand Bolboschoenus capensis (Burm.f.) Holub – Cape Province of South Africa Bolboschoenus fluviatilis (Torr.) Soják – Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Canada, United States, northeastern Mexico Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lam.) S.G.Sm. – southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, Mongolia Bolboschoenus grandispicus (Steud.) Lewej. & Lobin – coastal dunes in Senegal Bolboschoenus laticarpus Marhold, Hroudová, Ducháček & Zákr – central Europe from Britain and France to Ukraine; Algeria, Turkey Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla in W.D.J.Koch – widespread across much of temperate and subtropical Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and various islands Bolboschoenus medianus (V.J.Cook) Soják – Australia, New Zealand Bolboschoenus nobilis (Ridl.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson – Angola, Namibia Bolboschoenus novae-angliae (Britton) S.G.Sm. – northeastern United States from Maine south along the seacoast to Georgia Bolboschoenus planiculmis (F.Schmidt) T.V.Egorova – much of Europe and Asia from Spain to Japan and south to New Guinea Bolboschoenus robustus (Pursh) Soják – eastern United States; California, Bermuda, Bahamas, east coast of Mexico (from Tamaulipas to Tabasco), New Brunswick, northern South America Bolboschoenus schmidii (Raymond) Holub – Iran, Central Asia Bolboschoenus stagnicola (Raymond) Soják. – Pakistan Bolboschoenus yagara (Ohwi) Y.C.Yang & M.Zhan – northern Eurasia from Germany and Sweden to Japan and Kamchatka, including Russia, Siberia, China
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