Bolboschoenus caldwellii

Origin: ALL AUSTRALIAN STATES AND TERRITORIES.

Cultural notes: Requires damp to wet soils in permanent or semi-permanent water. Prefers full sun or part shade. Inhabits salt-marshes, grassy wetlands and wet depressions in red gum woodland.3

Tolerates: Frost, inundation, Brackish water.

Flowering season: October to april.

Flower colour: Golden or red-brown, occuring in groups of 1 – 3 spikelets.

Foliage colour: Pale to mid green, grass like leaves up to 7mm in width:.

Width: Up to 0.3m

Height: Up to 1m Water depth: aquatic to 0.25m

Plant spacing: 10cm apart

Recommended uses: Revegetation, adjacent to permanent or semi-pemanent water. Provides habitat for birds and frogs. Tubers of this plant were eaten by Indigenous Communities.