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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 terminate in a globular flower cluster. A group of three
leaves radiate out from the stalk beneath the flower cluster. There are 30 to 75
flowerlets within each flower cluster, 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 creeping underground stems (rhizomes). Green kyllinga resembles nutsedge
but unlike yellow or purple nutsedges, 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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