Spikelets on stems. Photo: Laura Levens, Upper Beaconsfield, near Dandenong, Vic

Flowering plant. Photo: Russell Best, Riddells Creek near Sunbury, Vic

Flowering plant. Photo: Russell Best, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Common Name

Coarse Club-rush

Family

Cyperaceae

Notes

Introduced annual rush to 10cm tall. Leaves basal, with a reddish sheath at the base, shorter than the flower stalks, to 4cm long, awl-like. Spikelets staw-coloured to yellowish or green, with a red, brown, or purplish patch near the tip, 3-7mm long. Flower heads of 1-12 spikelets in clusters at the tops of the flower stems, subtended by a leaf-like bract.

Description (as Scirpus marginatus) in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and JH Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 172

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Isolepis~marginata