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Isolepis carinata
Keeled bulrush is a small annual sedge-family grass-like plant native to the southeastern United States, found in moist and wet disturbed or landscaped ground. It is grown mainly as a wild or ornamental filler rather than as a cultivated crop, so care is simple: keep it moist and give it sun.
Isolepis carinata (syn. Scirpus koilolepis) is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name keeled bulrush. It is native to North America, where it is mostly distributed around the southeastern United States; it can also be found on the California coast. It grows in many types of moist and wet habitat, including disturbed, cultivated, and landscaped areas. It is an annual herb producing clumps of slender, erect stems up to 25 centimeters tall. The inflorescence is a solitary spikelet just a few millimeters long, or a cluster of up to three spikelets. These are accompanied by a stiff bract which looks like an extension of the stem growing past the spikelets.
Isolepis aucklandica · Isolepis bicolor · Low bulrush · Isolepis congrua · Alpine Club Rush · Floating Club-rush · Isolepis habra · Swamp Club Rush · Isolepis platycarpa · Isolepis producta · Proliferating bulrush · Bristleleaf bulrush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isolepis carinata 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.
