General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Grown by enthusiasts.
Description: Medium herbaceous sedge.
Dimensions: About 1-2 feet in height. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Sporadic in Florida from the Monroe County Keys, Miami-Dade and Broward counties north along the west coast to the Florida Panhandle; Texas, California and Nevada; West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America (Belize, Honduras) and the Old World in both temperate and tropical regions. In the Monroe County Keys, disjunct from Miami-Dade County to Big Pine Key.
Map of select IRC data from peninsular Florida.
Habitats: Marshes and wet pinelands.
Soils: Wet to moist, moderately well-drained to poorly-drained calcareous or sandy soils, without humus.
Nutritional Requirements: Low; it grows in nutrient poor soils.
Salt Water Tolerance: Moderate; tolerates brackish water or occasional inundation by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun.
Flower Color: Brownish inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics: Inconspicuous.
Flowering Season: Spring-summer.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
Horticultural Notes: Can be grown from seed and division.
