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How to Manage Pests

Identification: Weed Photo Gallery

Green kyllinga

Scientific name: Kyllinga brevifolia (Family Cyperaceae)

Life stages of Green kyllinga top left picture top right picture bottom picture

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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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