Common Bog-sedge

Common Bog-sedge
Common Bog-sedge
Common Bog-sedge

Common Bog-sedge

Schoenus apogon


Annual or short-lived perennial. Grows in seasonally moist to wet soils. 


Details Description
Type
Graminoid
Group
Sedge
Identifying Characteristics

Small tufted grass-like plant to 30 cm tall. Leaves fine and cylindrical. Flowers held in dense blackish clusters at a leafy bract node near the top of the plant. Flowers October-January.

Distinctive Features

The stalk of the flower spikelet zig zags.

Life Form Group
Graminoid
Life Form Codes
Medium to Small Tufted Graminoid (MTG)
EVC types
EVC 132_61: Heavier-soils Plains Grassland
EVC 132_62: Lighter-soils Plains Grassland
Native Status
Native to Australia
Taxonomy
Phylum
Charophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Schoenus
Species
apogon
Common Bog-sedge
Occurs mainly in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland.

Distribution maps indicate current and historic locations where species have been sighted.

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Endangered Status
DEPI Advisory List
Not listed
FFG Act
Not listed
EPBC Act
Not listed

The conservation status of species is listed within Victoria and Australia.

The Department of Environment and Primary Industry (DEPI) Advisory List consists of non-statutory advisory lists of rare or threatened flora and fauna within Victoria.

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (FFG Act) lists threatened species in Victoria. Under the Act, an Action Statement is produced for each listed species.

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is the Australian Government’s key piece of environmental legislation, listing nationally threatened native species and ecological communities.