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Lomandra hystrix
Also called Green Mat Rush
Creek mat rush is a tough, rhizomatous Australian perennial grass-like plant that grows along streams and in rainforest edges. It is valued for erosion control and revegetation and tolerates poor soils.
Lomandra hystrix, commonly known as green mat-rush, or creek mat-rush, is a perennial, rhizomatous a tall herb of Northern NSW to North Queensland wet tropics, Australia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomandra hystrix 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.
