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Australian Native Sedges

Australian Native Sedges are a great drought tolerant alternative for landscaping purposes as well as an essential element of revegetation projects.

Ficosa nodosa
Ficosa nodosa

Although they look like grasses and rushes they are valued for their ability to grow in both wet and dry conditions. Used in the areas around lakes, dams and rivers it is the ability to survive dry summers that makes them valuable.

Basically divided into three groups depending on how much water they grow in.

  • Dry bank types that grow above the water level.
  • Bank to marginal types that grow in the water however will survive without water for periods.
  • Marginal types that typically grow in water.

Commonly used Sedges and Rushes include:

  • Juncus usitatus (Common Rush) -To around 1.2m
  • Juncus pallidus (Pale Rush) – To around 2m
  • Juncus krausii (Sea Rush) – To around 1.2m
  • Juncus australis (Austral Rush) To around 1.2m
  • Juncus ingens (Giant Rush) To around 4m
  • Ficosa (Isolepsis) nodosa ( Knobbly Club-Rush) – To around 1m
    Excellent in coastal conditions with good foliage year round.
  • Eleocharis sphacelata (Tall Spike-rush) – To around 1.5m
  • Baloskion tetraphyllum
  • Bolboschoenus fluviatilis – Grows in brackish water
  • Bolboschoenus caldwellii (Marsh Club Rush) – To 4m
  • Cyperus lucidus – Fast to establish and used in urban wetland situations.
  • Carex tereticaulis (Rush Sedge) – To around 1m
  • Carex longabractiatum
  • Carex inversa (Knob Sedge) – To around .5m
  • Carex gaudichaudiana (Fen Sedge) – To around .9m
  • Restio – One of the more ornamental sedges, a good specimen plant near a pond.
  • Triglochin procerum
  • Schoenoplectus validus
  • Schoenoplectus mucronatus
  • Phragmites australis (Common Reed) – To around 6m
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