Culm (plant)

This article is about the plant part. For other uses see Culm disambiguation.

Culm, in botanical context, originally referred to a stem of any type of plant. It is derived from the Latin word for 'stalk' (culmus) and now specifically refers to the above-ground or aerial stems of grasses and sedges.

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