Scirpus robustus
Salt-marsh bulrush

Salt-marsh bulrush is a native sedge which may first be noticed growing along the edges of brackish and saline coastal marshes. They have very large conspicuous, cone-shaped spikelets, and long thin leaves and bracts. Its many seeds are an important food to ducks, geese and other water birds.


Salt-marsh bulrush is a bulrush sedge. stems erect, sharply triangular, hard, to 3 ft. tall; leaf blades from the upper stem nodes, very long and narrow, to 24 in. long, to 3/8 in. wide; inflorescence comprised of 1-5 large spikelets; bracts leaf-like, to 1 ft. long; spikelets large, oblong, to 1 1/2 in. long, stalked or unstalked, brown to dark reddish; nutlet shiny brown, with pits

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