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Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Cyperus lucidus 1 synonym: Mariscus lucidus |
| Common Name: | common leaf-rush , cutting grass , cutty , leafy flat-sedge , leafy flat sedge , moo-oo grass |
| 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. |
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