Scirpus californicus
Southern bulrush, Giant bulrush

This sedge looks very much like another tall native sedge, Scirpus validus, soft-stem bulrush. Either species may first be noticed as dark green stems growing in large colonies in water.


Southern bulrush is a bulrush sedge. from knotty rhizomes; stems to 10 ft. tall, dark green, smooth, slightly 3-angled; leaf blades none, just sheaths; inflorescence at stem tip but appears to be on the side of the top of the stem, irregular drooping branches, each branch having brown spikelets; bract rolled, pointed, to 3 in. long, appears to be continuation of stem; spikelets narrow ovoid, numerous, dark brown, to 1/2 in. long; nutlets grayish, feathery bristles, 2-4, dark red

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