Eleocharis sphacelata
                  Tall Spike-Sedge
Wetland Planting Zone
Deep Marsh
Approved Format
600cc
Family
Cyperaceae
Form
Eleocharis sphacelata is a spreading perennial aquatic sedge with flowering stems to 5m tall
Foliage
The foliage is reduced to a small tip on a sheath around the flowering stems
Flowers
Flowers are small, brown and bract-like, grouped in 6cm cylindrical clusters at the end of the flwoering stems, Spring-Summer
Fruit
Straw to golden brown coloured nut, 2-2.7mm with bristles at base
Habitat
Tall Spike-Sedge lives in still or slow moving fresh water to 5m deep
Distinctive Features
Tall segmented, straw-like cylindrical culms (flowering stems)
Similar Species
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani and Baumea articulata are similar size, but have branched flowering spikelets and sharp-pointed leaves
Comments
E. sphacelata is an important habitat and source of nesting material for water birds. 

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