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Indigenous Plants Indigenous Plant Use Identification & Control
of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Lepidosperma laterale |
| Common Name: | Variable Sword Sedge |
| Status: | New plant not in the old website |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Grass, Rush / Sedge, Grass Like / Strappy, Bird Attracting, Butterfly Attracting, Insect Attracting |
| Growing Conditions: | Partial Shade, Shade
Sandy, Moist |
| Size (HxW): | 30–100 cm x 2–8 mm |
| Foliage: | strap like leaves |
| Flowers: | Red-Brown to Grey-Brown flowers September to March. Flower stalks to 1 m, |
| General Comments: | Variable small to tall clumping perennial sedge, spreading by very short underground stems. Flowering stems rigid, flat or slightly convex on one side with very sharp margins. Provides a habitat to frogs. Birds eat the seeds. Very adaptable feature plant which will also tolerate sun. Care needs to be taken with placement due to the sharp edges. |
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This image by John Tann from Sydney, NSW, has licence: CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/>
This image by John Tann from Sydney, NSW, has licence: CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/>