Umbrella papyrus
Cyperus alternifolius L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 84 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Cyperaceae
Also called Umbrella Papyrus, Umbrella flat sedge
Formerly Eucyperus alternifolius
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 46 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -9.4 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia -6.7 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 風車草, 旱傘竹, 輪傘莎草
- Spanish
- Paragüitas de Madagascar
- Czech
- šáchor střídavolistý
- Japanese
- シュロガヤツリ(広義)
- Polish
- Cibora Zmienna
- Swedish
- parasollsäv
- Chinese (China)
- 野生风车草
- Italian
- falso papiro, cipero ornamentale
- French
- Souchet à feuilles alternes
- Hebrew
- גומא מניפני (תרבותי)
- Thai
- กกรังกา
- German
- Zypergras, Zyperngras
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Cyperus alternifolius (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.