Scirpus cyperinus [sold as Woolgrass] Woolgrass
Small, greenish-brown, dense spikelets in large terminal clusters that develop into fluffy, woolly, light brown or reddish-brown bristles in late summer and fall.
Medium green grass-like, long, narrow leaves up to 1/2" wide that turn yellow-tan in late fall and winter.
Smooth, unbranched, solid, three-angled to round stems.
Tiny achenes surrounded by persistent, woolly bristles that create the characteristic woolly appearance.
3-5' feet
2-4' feet
Best grown in moist to wet soils.
Native to wet meadows, swamps, sloughs, marshes, bottomland prairies, stream/pond margins and wet disturbed areas in eastern North America.
