Eleocharis obtusa

Common Name
Blunt spikerush
Plant Form
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
Duration
Annual
Max Height (ft)
2.5
Region
Coastal
Piedmont
Mountain
Hardiness Zone
5, 6, 7
Commercially available
Yes
Additional Info

In a wide range of habitats, including alluvial swamps (particularly seasonally flooded sloughs), depression swamps and ponds, seasonally exposed river shores and bars, and freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes; also in impoundments, wet fields and pastures, beaver wetlands, ditches, muddy depressions, ruts, and many other disturbed, seasonally wet habitats. Frequent to common throughout.

Bloom Time
Spring
Early Summer
Late Summer
Fall
Light Requirements
Full sun
Partial sun
Moisture Requirements
Wet
Moist