Botanical name:

Carex dipsacea

Common name(s):

Tahoata, teasel sedge

About:

This appealing New Zealand tussock reaches up to 80cm in height, featuring fine green leaves with a vertical growth habit. It serves as an excellent understory plant suitable for coastal to lower alpine areas. It thrives in swampy, damp environments and is an ideal choice for regeneration efforts and wetland restoration.

Natural habitat:

Coastal to subalpine. Favouring wetlands this species usually grows along rivers, lakes and ponds within sand dunes, tall forest, shrub-land and tussock grassland.

Growing environment:

Frost, Sun, Drought, Salt, Wetland, Wind & Coastal tolerant.

Endemic distribution:

North and South Islands. Widespread from about the northern Waikato South. Naturalised around Auckland City

Height: 80cm

Flowering:

October - December

Fruiting:

Throughout the year

Uses:

Riparian plantings & Pioneer Plantings

How to grow:

Easily grown from fresh seed and by the division of whole plants. Will tolerate most conditions, but does best in full sun in a permanently damp soil. In ideal conditions this species often naturalises, and it can at times become invasive.

** Seed germinates without pre treatment. Sow seed direct & keep moist until germination is complete.