Wool-grass

Wool-grass

Scirpus cyperinus

Sedge Family - Cyperaceae

Leaves are elongated and narrow with a ridged, rough upper surface. The wooly looking flower heads, at the top of triangular-shaped stems, account for the common name.

An attractive, tall (usually 3 to 4 feet high), perennial sedge found in wet ditches and at the edges of lakes, swamps and marshes.

Flower clusters develop as umbels with each composed of many nodding, roundish groups of 6 to 12 spikelets (each with tiny male and female flowers). (Photographed - August)

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