The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Trichophorum cespitosum
Also called Tufted Bulrush, Cespitose Bulrush, Tufted Clubrush, Tufted Leafless Bulrush, Deerhair Bulrush
Deergrass is a tufted perennial sedge native to cool northern regions, found in wet acidic bogs, moors and wet heaths. It is a wild bog plant rather than a garden or houseplant, and it needs constantly wet, acidic peaty conditions to thrive.
Trichophorum cespitosum, commonly known as deergrass or tufted bulrush, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. It was originally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Scirpus cespitosus, but was transferred to the genus Trichophorum by the Swedish botanist Carl Johan Hartman in 1849, becoming Trichophorum cespitosum.
Trichophorum cespitosum has a circum-boreal montane distribution. In the British Isles it occurs in Scotland, Northwest England, Wales, Southwest England and most of Ireland, thinning out in Southeastern England. It grows in wet acidic soils and peats, in bogs, moorland and wet heaths, persisting even in burnt areas and where grazing pressure by deer is high. It grows from sea level to at least 1,190 m (3,900 ft) in Britain, above Caenlochan in Angus. It is a common species, growing abundantly in suitable conditions.
Alpine bulrush · Deergrass · Yosemite bulrush · Clinton's bulrush · Bulrush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trichophorum cespitosum 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.
