Needle Spikerush Seeds (Eleocharis acicularis)

Rising from wet soils along the edges of ponds, vernal pools, and slow streams, this most delicate plant threads the water’s surface with fine, green needles, swaying and nodding in spring currents -- or stands tall as a thin green carpet over muddy ground.

Rhizomatous and fine-textured, needle spikerush occurs across much of North America. It’s a plant that thrives where water lingers just long enough to sustain its hair-thin stems, often mere inches in length, each tipped with a single, tight spikelet—no showy petals, no drama – blooming from spring through summer. 

Think of this little plant as infrastructure, a sediment stabilizer, an oxygen source for shallow waters, a spawning substrate for amphibians, forage for waterfowl. 

Put it to work in stormwater swales, constructed wetlands, aquariums, rain gardens with prolonged saturation, and de-paved urban basins where water once sheeted across asphalt. 

Approximately 500+ Seeds (0.15 grams).