About Schoenus nigricans L.
This is a description of the perennial plant Schoenus nigricans L. It grows in low, dense clumps that reach 20 to 70 centimeters in height. It has threadlike leaves that carry wide, dark brown ligules. Its inflorescence is a small, flattened cluster of dark spikelets. The fruit it produces is an achene covered by a hard, white shell. Schoenus nigricans grows in many types of wetlands and other moist, alkaline habitats, including marshes, springs, seeps, peat bogs, heath, and alkali flats.
