Rhynchospora colorata Dryopteris where it only reaches 4'

where it only reaches 4' tall

The symmetrical 20" wide clumps are topped with lavender flowers on 18" scapes in early summer

or in a bog

The leaves are green with lime-green flecking

Rhynchospora colorata Dryopteris where it only reaches 4'(syn: Dichromena colorata) From the savannah and marsh regions of coastal Virginia through Florida comes this truly bizarre member of the sedge family. The slowly spreading patches (3' wide in 2 years) of Rhynchospora colorata are composed of sedge like foliage until mid May (NC), when the 15" stalks are topped with spectacular white bracts (modified leaves) that surround the tiny flowers. While rhynchospora will prosper in all but the driest of