Eleocharis montevidensis

1) A cool season spike sedge, flowering and fruiting mostly in spring months. 2) Stems usually around 0.2 m tall; plant colony-forming 3) Stem bases reddish, plants rhizomatous 4) Floral scales rounded at tip with clear margins (resembling finger nails with French tips) 5) Narrow stems. Spike wider than stem.

No treatment is required for germination (Steffen 1997).

The most common species in Texas, occurring in moist soil essentially throughout Texas but rare in extreme eastern and western parts of the State.

Disturbed, open wetlands such as roadside ditches, wet pastures, and wet grazed coastal prairies; sometimes occurs on Gulf beaches.