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Anthelepis paludosa

Anthelepis paludosa
Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, CC BY 4.0

Anthelepis paludosa is a sedge-family perennial native to wetlands of south-eastern Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It is a niche wetland plant rarely grown outside its native range, so it likes wet, sunny to partly shaded conditions similar to swamp margins.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil constantly moist or standing in shallow water.
Soil
Wet, organic-rich mud or boggy loam.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

Other Anthelepis plants

Anthelepis clarksonii · Anthelepis guillauminii · Anthelepis undulata · Anthelepis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anthelepis paludosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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