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Millet beaksedge

Rhynchospora miliacea

Millet beaksedge is a perennial, grass-like sedge that grows in clumps and spreads by slender rhizomes, native to the southeastern United States and the West Indies. It is a wetland plant that needs consistently moist conditions.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently wet or standing in shallow water; it tolerates wet swamp conditions.
Soil
Wet, organic, acidic to neutral mud or peaty soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. U.S.A. to Texas, Caribbean
Climate
subtropical

About

Rhynchospora miliacea, commonly known as millet beaksedge, is a perennial graminoid in the sedge family.

Where it grows

Rhynchospora miliacea is found in the southeastern United States and in the West Indies. In the United States, it is distributed from southeastern Virginia south to South Florida and west to East Texas. It grows in swamp forests, including maritime swamp forests.

Other Rhynchospora plants

White beaksedge · Baldwin's beaksedge · Little beaksedge · Rhynchospora biflora · West Indian beaksedge · Anglestem beaksedge · California beaksedge · Needle beaksedge · Brownish beaksedge · Broadfruit horned beaksedge · Bunched beaksedge · Rhynchospora cephalotes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rhynchospora miliacea 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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