Along watercourses

A slowly spreading tussock plant with brown flowerheads in spring and summer. Grows well in boggy positions, in swamps, beside streams and in shallow ponds in full sun. Host plant for the Evening Brown Melanitis leda and Spotted Sedge-skipper Hesperilla ornata butterflies. The Cyperaceae are grasslike, herbaceous plants comprising about 70 genera and 4,000 species, commonly found in wet or saturated conditions.

Photo: Robert Whyte

Seed collecting and propagation

Flowers then fruits in the spring and summer. Seed requires no treatment. Germinates in 2 to 4 weeks.  Viability good.