Common Name: Sticky Sword Sedge
Botanical Name: Lepidosperma viscidum
Family: CYPERACEAE
Description:
Erect, rigid, clumping sedge. Stems 20-50 cm high by 0.5 cm wide. Grows from a rhizome. Slightly wider than stems, long, flat or convex, sharply pointed with rough, almost saw-toothed margins. Flowers in panicles 4-15 cm long. Throughout the year.
Erect, rigid, clumping sedge. Stems 20-50 cm high by 0.5 cm wide. Grows from a rhizome. Slightly wider than stems, long, flat or convex, sharply pointed with rough, almost saw-toothed margins. Flowers in panicles 4-15 cm long. Throughout the year.
Natural Distribution:
Common to temperate woodlands and mallee in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in WA, NSW and Vic.
Common to temperate woodlands and mallee in all agricultural districts of SA. Also occurs in WA, NSW and Vic.
Notes:
Not eaten by livestock. No regional conservation status recorded.
Not eaten by livestock. No regional conservation status recorded.
