Aquatic Plants

Carex tereticaulis​
           Basket Sedge​
Wetland Planting Zone
Ephemeral Batter
Approved Format
>90cm3 plants (such as 93cc HIKO stock)
Family
Cyperaceae
Form
Large erect tussock to 120cm tall
Foliage
Green leaf blades to 20cm long when young, that age to dark yellow-brown sheathing blades that wrap around the cylindrical flowering stem.
Flowers
Composed of small brown bracts densely clustered at the ends of long, hollow, green, erect flowering stems. September-November
Fruit
Dark brown oval-shaped nut type seed only a few mm in size
Habitat
Seasonally inundated areas in grassland, scrub and forests
Distinctive Features
Large tussocking form and deep green leaves cylindrical flowering stems
Similar Species
Carex appressa flowering stems have three flat edges. Rush species (Juncus) have dust-like seed.
Comments
The leaves are used by Aboriginal people in basket making

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