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Cyperaceae
Brown beak-sedge
Rhynchospora fusca
Also known as Beak sedge, Beak rush, Rhynchospora, Rhynchospora capillacea
Native Plants · Sedge · Wetland · Bog Garden · Pond Margin · Native Plant · Ecological Restoration · Moisture Loving · Specialist · Habitat Plant · Perennial
Brown beak-sedge is a specialist wetland sedge that requires consistently waterlogged, acidic, nutrient-poor soils to thrive, making it best suited to bog gardens, pond margins, or rain gardens. It is rarely grown as a conventional garden plant and is most valuable in ecological restoration and wetland habitat projects. This plant needs very specific conditions and is not recommended for beginners or standard garden beds.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Keep soil saturated or boggy; never allow to dry out · Every 3-5 days
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 4–4.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Division
Hardiness
USDA 3a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Shallow
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Italy, Maine, Maryland, Masachusettes, Michigan
- Attracts
- Bees, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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