Rhynchospora colorata Southwest Europe and in bogs

and in bogs

causing skeletonized leaves

'Blue Piecrust') makes a giant

each edged with a narrow white band from the leaf tip to the base

Rhynchospora colorata Southwest Europe and in bogs(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