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Isolepis congrua

Isolepis congrua
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Isolepis congrua, the slender club-sedge, is a small tufted annual sedge native to southern and southeastern Australia, usually seen in dry open ground rather than grown in gardens. Its main requirements are full sun and well-drained soil that is not kept soggy.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass, Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or light soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates frost in its native climate, protect from hard freezes if grown in containers.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. & SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Isolepis congrua, the slender club-sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. A small, tufted annual plant growing to 20 cm tall, often seen in the Australian Outback.

Other Isolepis plants

Isolepis aucklandica · Isolepis bicolor · Keeled bulrush · Low bulrush · 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 congrua 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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