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Cyperaceae
Many-stalked spike-rush
Eleocharis multicaulis
Also known as Eleocharis, Manystem spikesedge, Spike sedge, Eleocharis multicaulis f. vivipara
Native Plants · Spike-Rush · Cyperaceae · Aquatic · Marginal · Bog Plant · Pond · Perennial · Wetland · Wildlife Habitat · Rush
Many-stalked spike-rush is a slender aquatic or marginal perennial that thrives in shallow water or permanently waterlogged soils such as pond margins and boggy meadows. It forms dense tufts of fine, rush-like stems and is an excellent plant for stabilising pond edges and providing habitat for aquatic wildlife. Once established in the right wet conditions it requires virtually no care.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Maintain standing water or saturated substrate at all times · Keep roots permanently wet or submerged
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–5.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Algeria, Azores, Belgium, Canary Is., Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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