The leaves are similar to the stems in height, with 4 to 10 leaves per stem.
Beaked sedge is a frost-tolerant, prolific seeder.
These produce a matted and tufted growth pattern. First a long rhizome emerges and a shoot is produced. Dead shoots with living roots can still establish daughter shoots from rhizomes. Beaked sedge also reproduces with stolons. Beaked sedge shoots can be spread by fragmentation.