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Scientific Name

Tetraria capillaris

Family Name

CYPERACEAE

Common Name

Hair Sedge

Status

Height

12-110cm

Flowers

Spikelets of flowers, 4-6mm long.

Fruit

Nut

Form

Tufted perennial with wiry stems.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Huon Valley; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar

Communities

Habitat Notes

Marsh and stream margins, ditches, wet heaths and shrubberies, and buttongrass plains, from sealevel to 850m altitude.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

May be difficult to grow from seed. Surface sow, or cover lightly. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Nut 3.75mm long, pale brown.

Seed Treatment Method

Bog method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Smoke treatment or leaching may be useful.

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes