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Gardening with
Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use Identification & Control
of Common Weeds

Botanical Name:Cyperus lucidus 
Common Name:Leafy Flat Sedge  , Common Leaf-Rush  , Cutty  , Cutting Grass  , Moo-oo Grass  , Leafy Flat-sedge 
Sold As:Tube ($2.00)
Plant
Type(s):
Rush / Sedge, Grass Like / Strappy, Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting, Aquatic
Growing
Conditions:
Full Sun, Partial Shade, Shade
Wet, Boggy, Aquatic
Size
(HxW):
1.5 m high
Foliage:Densely tufted perennial herb spreading from short thick underground stems. Flowering stems rigid, triangular. 5-10 bracts at base of flowerhead, 5-15cm long.
Flowers:Brown to coppery branched flowerheads with 6-10 primary branches to 20 cm long, divided into dense, oval to cylindric spikes 1-3 cm long. Many rounded or flattened 4-10-flowered spikelets; stem within spikelet broadly winged, October-February.
General
Comments:

A spreading sedge for low moist sites in gardens and beside water areas.  Food plant for caterpillars, also a habitat for frogs.

Likes moist swampy soils and edges of streams which may dry out in summer. Full sun, semi shade to full shade.

Further
Information:
  1. Whitehorse Council 
  2. Yarra Ranges Council 
  3. Australian National Botanic Garden 
  4. iNaturalist 
  5. Wikipedia (free online encyclopedia) 
  6. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (VICFLORA) 


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