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Alpine Club Rush

Isolepis crassiuscula

Alpine Club Rush
Photo: Tim Park, CC BY-SA 4.0

Alpine Club Rush is a small, tufted grass-like perennial sedge from Australasia and Japan. It is grown mainly as a low, neat plant in rock gardens and damp, free-draining spots.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season, and avoid waterlogging in winter.
Soil
Moist but free-draining, gritty or sandy soil.
Temperature
10 to 25 °C; tolerates cool conditions and light frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Japan (Honshu), New Guinea, SE. Australia to New Zealand
Climate
temperate

About

Isolepis crassiuscula is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. It is native to Australasia and Japan. It was first described by the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1859.

Other Isolepis plants

Isolepis aucklandica · Isolepis bicolor · Keeled bulrush · Low bulrush · Isolepis congrua · Floating Club-rush · Isolepis habra · Swamp Club Rush · Isolepis platycarpa · Isolepis producta · Proliferating bulrush · Bristleleaf bulrush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isolepis crassiuscula 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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