Wolf's Spikerush

Eleocharis wolfii

In the Carolinas and Georgia, found in oak flatwoods, shallow ephemeral pools on granitic flatrocks, prairies, barrens, swales, savannas. Great Lakes dunes further northward. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Louisiana. How scores work Is it native here?

Profile 88%

Height: Up to about 16 inches
Light: Partial shade, Full sun
Soil moisture: Moist to wet

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At a glance

Life cycle: Perennial
Bloom: May to July

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Not yet recorded · Spread · Leaves

Recorded in 12 Louisiana parishes.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Hardwood and oak flatwoods

Flat, poorly drained uplands and terraces with oaks, sweetgum and sometimes loblolly pine, wet in winter and dry in summer, but neither a floodplain nor a swamp.

Granite and other acidic rock outcrops

Bare or thin-soil rock on granite, gneiss, sandstone, quartzite and similar acidic rock, including granite flatrocks and domes.

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

All habitats

Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food. 51 animals.

Wild Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Willet
Tringa semipalmata
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
Birds. 1 shared habitat

Widespread birds also seen here (21)

Found in many habitats here, so not listed above.

All wildlife of Louisiana

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

6CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA

Genus host records with ranges including LA · Eleocharis

Bactra furfuranaRush Bactra
Cisseps fulvicollisYellow-Collared Scape Moth
Elophila obliteralisWaterlily Leafcutter Moth
Parapoynx allionealisWatermilfoil Leafcutter, Bladderwort Casemaker
Donacaula dispersella
Thopeutis forbesellus

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

0BeesSoutheastern regional records

0Specialist beesPollen specialists

11BirdsRecorded eating Eleocharis in Louisiana

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Birds whose range includes Louisiana, most records first.