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DESCRIPTION:
Green kyllinga is a perennial sedge with narrow, grass-like leaves.
The plant grows best in moist or wet areas that receive full
sun
but it can survive some shade and drying once established. Mature
plants may reach 15 inches (38.2 cm). Green kyllinga flowers
from
May to October. Flower stalks are triangular in cross-section and
produce a green, 3/8 inch (9.5 mm)
A group of three leaves radiate out from the stalk. There are 30
to 75 spikelets within each flower, each one capable of producing
one seed. The plant's flat, oval seeds are about 1/8 inch (3 mm)
long and half as wide, germinating from spring through summer.
Established
plants spread with rhizomes. Green kyllinga resembles nutsedge
but unlike yellow or purple netsedges, it does not have any underground
tubers and has green rather than yellow or purple flowers. See
UC
IPM's Green Kyllinga Pest
Note
for more information.
Sedge ID illustration.
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