Dwarf Mat Rush Plant

Evergreen above 10 degrees fahrenheit.

Dwarf mat rush plant. A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. It grows in a variety of soil types and is frost heat and drought tolerant. Upright clumping foliage 2 1 2 ft. Lomandra longifolia commonly known as spiny head mat rush spiky headed mat rush or basket grass is a perennial rhizomatous herb found throughout eastern australia the leaves are 40 cm to 80 cm long and generally have a leaf of about 8 mm to 12 mm wide.

An australian native dwarf mat rush is forms soft airy clumps of long evergreen leaves. Massed planting gives a great coverage and will smother out weeds in time. Lomandra longifolia breeze pp15 420 lm300 dwarf mat rush an evergreen perennial with narrow deep green strap shaped leaves that are curiously cut as though with pinking shears at the tips. Small sterile heads of yellow flowers in spring.

A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about lomandra dwarf mat rush longleaf matrush spiny headed matrush lomandra longifolia breeze supplied by member gardeners in the p. A great versatile and drought tolerant alternative to liriope and low growing shrubs. Labillardiere described lomandra longifolia from a specimen.

Can be used as a indoor plant or in tropical areas. Spiny headed mat rush is a common plant of forests and heaths in eastern australia. Grows to about 60 70cm high and spreads to about 1 metre. Also tolerates salt spray.

Low maintenance filler plant tolerates most soil types and is ideal for erosion protection on banks. Breeze dwarf mat rush lomandra longifolia lm300 plant patent 15 420. On oct 28 2003 kennedyh from churchill victoria australia zone 10a wrote. Compact fast growing lomandra with fine bright green foliage bearing yellow flower spikes during spring.

Requiring little to no maintenance it is tough and adaptable to a variety of conditions including sun moderate shade drought and clay soil. Growing much smaller than the species this cultivar reaches to 24 to 40 inches tall and spreads to about the same.