Botanical Name: | Isolepis inundata synonym: Scirpus inundatus |
Common Name: | swamp club-rush |
Status: | DISABLED: Unavailable for now & possibly forever |
Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
Plant Type(s): | Rush / Sedge, Grass Like / Strappy |
Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moist, Wet, Boggy, Poorly Drained |
Size (HxW): | 30 cm x 40 cm |
Foliage: | Leaves reduced to a point or blade to 15 mm long. Leafy bract below flowerhead equal to or larger than flowerhead, to 1.5 cm long. |
Flowers: | Straw coloured with dark red-brown patches on sides. Flowerheads of 3-20 angled spikelets 2-6 mm long. Lower bracts spirally arranged, rounded to pointed tip, 2-5 veins. Style 2-branched. Nut shiny pale yellow to light red-brown. October-April |
General Comments: | Erect or arching open tufted perennial sedge, spreading from underground stems and occasionally offshoots extending from the flowerhead. A dainty small tuft for moist areas and beside pools. Frog Habitat. |
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