-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Monocots (Class Liliopsida)​

-Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies (Order Poales)

-​Grasses Family Poaceae

-Subfamily Chloridoideae

-Tribe Cynodonteae

-Subtribe Eleusininae

-Bermuda Grasses (Genus Cynodon)

-Pond Flatsedge (Cyperus ochraceus)

Cyperus ochraceus is a species of sedge that is native to Central America, southern parts of North America and South America. Flat-sedge grows in open areas of damp sedge-rich grasslands, fens, marshes, calcareous flushes, and along margins of streams and ponds. It can also grow in brackish areas near saltmarshes and in dune slacks.