Fragrant Flatsedge
Cyperus odoratus
Fragrant flatsedge is a robust annual-to-short-lived sedge of wet shores, ditches, and pond edges, its golden-brown seed heads feeding waterfowl and songbirds. Like other sedges, the seed and tuberous roots have documented food use.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 2–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, container, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY