General Landscape Uses:
Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Availability:
Rarely grown by native plant nurseries.
Description: Medium sedge with long, very narrow leaves.
Dimensions: About 1-2 feet in height, to 3 feet when in flower. About as broad as tall.
Growth Rate: Moderate.
Range:
Eastern and southern United States west to Texas and south to the Monroe County Keys; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
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Habitats: Marshes, mostly along the coast.
Soils: Wet to moist, seasonally inundated brackish, or occassionally freshwater, soils.
Nutritional Requirements: Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance: Moderate; tolerates brackish water or occasional inundation by salt water.
Salt Wind Tolerance: Moderate; grows near salt water, but is protected from direct salt spray by other vegetation.
Drought Tolerance: Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements: Full sun to light shade.
Flower Color: Brown inflorescence.
Flower Characteristics: Semi-showy inflorescence.
Flowering Season: Spring-fall.
Fruit: Inconspicuous achene.
