Carex tereticaulis

Basket Sedge

Wetland Planting Zone: Ephemeral Batter
Approved Format: >90cm3 plants (such as 93cc HIKO stock)
Family: Cyperaceae
Form: Large erect tussock to 120cm tall
Foliage: Green leaf blades to 20cm long when young, that age to dark yellow-brown sheathing blades that wrap around the cylindrical flowering stem.
Flowers: Composed of small brown bracts densely clustered at the ends of long, hollow, green, erect flowering stems. September-November
Fruit: Dark brown oval-shaped nut type seed only a few mm in size
Habitat: Seasonally inundated areas in grassland, scrub and forests
Distinctive Features: Large tussocking form and deep green leaves cylindrical flowering stems
Similar Species: Carex appressa flowering stems have three flat edges. Rush species (Juncus) have dust-like seed.
Comments: The leaves are used by Aboriginal people in basket making