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Lepidosperma tetraquetrum is a tufted, rhizomatous perennial sedge from southwest Australia, growing 2 to 3 metres tall and about 2.5 metres wide. It thrives in moist, peaty sands near permanent water.
Lepidosperma tetraquetrum is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Southwest Australia.
The rhizomatous sedge typically grows to a height of two to three metres and with a spread of around two and a half metres wide. It is a tufted perennial with brownish inflorescence that appears sometime between November and December or January and March. In Western Australia it is found along the high rainfall southern coast, to the east of Albany on the Esperance Plains and north of Perth on the Swan Coastal Plain. Lepidosperma tetraquetrum occurs on sands with black peat near permanent water.
Lepidosperma amantiferrum · Lepidosperma angustatum · Lepidosperma asperatum · Lepidosperma avium · Lepidosperma benthamianum · Lepidosperma bungalbin · Hoary Rapier Sedge · Lepidosperma chinense · Lepidosperma concavum · Riverside Sword Sedge · Tall Sword Sedge · Common Rapier Sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepidosperma tetraquetrum 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.
