Cyperaceae
Few-flower spike-rush
Eleocharis quinqueflora
Also known as Eleocharis fernaldii, Scirpus graecus, Eleocharis pauciflora var. fernaldii, Scirpus baeothryon var. campestris
Native Plants · Spike-Rush · Aquatic · Bog Plant · Pond Margin · Wetland · Sedge · Native Plant · Cold Hardy · Water Garden · Marginal Plant
Few-flower spike-rush is a slender aquatic perennial best suited to bog gardens, pond margins, and wet meadow plantings where the soil remains consistently moist to waterlogged. It tolerates full sun to partial shade and is highly cold-hardy across its wide native range. Plant in shallow water or saturated soil and allow it to naturalize for low-maintenance, ecological plantings.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Keep soil consistently wet or saturated; suitable for boggy and waterlogged conditions · Every 3-5 days or keep consistently moist
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 6 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 4 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Central European Rus, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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