Lomandra Longifolia Mat Rush

Spiny head mat rush basket grass.

Lomandra longifolia mat rush. A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. Lomandra longifolia mat rush. A wonderful versatile drought and salt spray tolerant alternative to liriope and low growing shrubs. Growing much smaller than the species this cultivar reaches to 24 to 40 inches tall and spreads to about the same.

Lomandra longifolia spiny headed mat rush a sturdy evergreen perennial plant that forms a 4 to 5 foot tall by 6 to 7 foot wide tussock with long narrow medium green colored strap shaped leaves that arch over gracefully and have a toothed leaf tip curiously looking as thought cut with pinking shears. Compact fast growing lomandra with fine bright green foliage bearing yellow flower spikes during spring. Lomandra longifolia lomandra longifolia a hardy perennial suited to a wide range of positions from sandy soil to clay sun to part shade. This cultivar has proven to be very adaptable and is arguably the best lomandra on the market for appearance and all round.

Low maintenance filler plant tolerates most soil types and is ideal for erosion protection on banks. Common all along the east coast of australia from tasmania to queensland on. Massed planting gives a great coverage and will smother out weeds in time. Lomandra mat rush one of our most popular native grasses lomandras are real workhorses that will find a place in any garden.

Scented yellow flowers in winter and spring followed by seeds a month or two after flowering. Lomandra longifolia tanika mat rush. A member of the xanthorrhoeaceae family it can grow in a range of sandy soils in swamps and wet places to the montane zone on banks of creeks rocky hillsides cliffs and open forests. Lomandra hystrix mat rush appearance.

Great as a background or mass planting in the garden. If you have tough difficult dry outdoor sites where you think nothing will grow try a lomandra. 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. Lomandra longifolia spiny head mat rush or basket grass is native australia wide except for the northern territory and western australia.

Lomandra longifolia is a perennial rhizomatous herb with glossy green shiny firm flat foliage. Lomandra longifolia is a native australian grass it can grow in a range of sandy soils in swamps and wet places on banks of creeks rocky hillsides cliffs and open forests. Breeze dwarf mat rush lomandra longifolia lm300 plant patent 15 420. 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.

A clumping grass like perennial with attractive narrow bluish green foliage and masses of perfumed yellow flowers in spring.