Eleocharis pusilla
Photo: Matt Salmond
Native At risk data deficient
- Scientific Name
- Eleocharis pusilla
- Type
- Native
- Plant Life-form Type
- short
- Taxonomy
- R. Br.
- Presence
- North and South Islands
- Habitat
- Margins of stream, lakes and dune hollows
- Temperature (°C)
- up to 28
- Hardness (ppm)
- Hardy
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Propagation
- Transplant culms/dividing existing plants
- Features
- E. pusilla forms erect light green tufts from a slender rhizome. Sheaths are membranous or thin, colourless (hyaline), orifice oblique. The terminal spike 2 to 3 mm.
- Source
- TIFBIS