Scirpus cyperinus
Wool-grass

This large native sedge may first be noticed as a colony of 6 ft. tall, somewhat widely spaced Scirpus-like stems, each stem topped by a large, shaggy brownish inflorescence hanging and drooping, several inches long.


Wool-grass is a bulrush sedge. stems erect, to 6 ft. tall; leaf blades very long, from the base, channeled, to 3 ft. long, to 3/4 in. wide, folded at tip, margins rough; inflorescence many spikelet clusters, wooly-looking when mature, each cluster hanging on a long thin green stalk, green stalks converging at stem tip; bracts 2-3, long, leaf-like; spikelets as many as 500, ovoid, brownish, on secondary and even tertiary stalks; nutlets 3-angled, ridged

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