Umbrella Plant
(Cyperus involucratus)
- Type: Perennial
- Light: Full Sun
- Height: 3-6'
- Spread: 2-3'
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Cyperus involucrata, commonly called "Umbrella Plant" or "Umbrella Sedge", is a rhizomatous, evergreen, densely-clumping, tender perennial sedge that typically grows to 3-6’ tall in frost free areas, but to 2-3’ tall where not winter hardy and grown as an annual. It is probably native to boggy areas and lake/stream margins in Madagascar. This sedge is ornamentally grown for its showy green bracts. Erect triangular stems rise up from a network of short woody rhizomes.