-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)

-Umbrella Papyrus (Cynodon alternifolius)

Cyperus alternifolius, the umbrella papyrus, umbrella sedge or umbrella palm, is a grass-like plant in the genus Cyperus of the sedge family Cyperaceae. They have the appearance of the spokes of an umbrella.