Aquatic Plants
Carex tereticaulis
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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 |
