The leaves are to three inches wide. Swamp lily flowers arise from the bulb on a long flower stalk that is separate from the leaves. The flowers have six petals and are white or white and pink. 61 KB 40 KB 43 KB 33 KB Drawing - 486 KB Cyperus odoratus Flat sedge F lat sedge is an emersed plant. Its overall appearance is typical of this large genus.
Flat sedge grows abundantly along every kind of marshy shore and wet clearing.
F lat sedge grows from 4 to 30 inches tall. It may have only a few leaves rising from the base, and a few loose sheaths. The base of the inflorescence has 3 to 10 conspicuous leaf-like bracts . The inflorescence may be from 1 to 18 inches long. It has several small bottlebrush-like clusters of spikelets .