Chufas (Cyperus esculentus) - Chufas area warm-season, perennial bunch grass with a peanut-like  underground nut used for food plots of deer, turkey, hogs and wild hogs. This legume is very similar to peanuts and hogs will root them the say way they do peanutes. Plant in spring through summer. Wildlife digs up the chufas once they mature. Also called yellow nutsedge or tiger nuts.

Chufas prefer fertile, sandy and loamy soils. Chufa plants have underground tubers, which are part of the plant that turkeys eat. One chufas tuber will produce a plant that can grow to 15 - 75 tubers when mature. Turkeys find the tubers by scratching them from just under the surface of the ground. The tubers are high in protein and fat, which makes them especially nutritious for wild turkeys. Chufa can also make an excellent food source for other wildlife including ducks and waterfowl. 

Chufa plants grow well in the southern half of the US from Northern California across to Southern Iowa and even Southern Pennsylvania. Clay soils can support chufa. When growing in clay soils, lightly turn the soil in the fall to expose the tubers.  In general, chufas will grow anywhere that corn can be successfully grown.