Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
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Carex grayi Gray’s Sedge Z 3-8
Club-like maces in June through fall.
Flowers look like club-like maces in June to December. This one will make your friends & neighbors ask “what the heck is it?”
Size: 30" x 24"
Care: Full sun to part shade in moist soil
Native: Vermont west to Wisconsin, south to Georgia and MissouriCollected before 1880.
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Carex montana Soft-leaved Sedge Z 4-10
Soft mounding grass with small brown flower spikes March-April
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Soft mounding grass with small brown flower spikes March-April
Size: 10” X 10”
Care: Part sun to shade in well-drained soil
Native: Europe, Caucasas, West SiberiaLinnaeus 1753
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Carex rosea Rosy sedge, Stellate sedge PERENNIAL GRASS Z 3-9
Mounds of thinnest of medium green leaves mingled with stems with star shaped seed clusters in May-June
Mounds of thinnest of medium green leaves mingled with stems with star shaped seed clusters in May-June.
Size: 12” x 10”
Care: part shade and shade in moist well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: No. Dakota south to TX & east incl. WI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Awards: Great Plants for the Great Plains Grass of the Year 2020Collected before 1811.
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Chasmanthium latifolium Northern Sea oats Z 5-9
Graceful, pendulous oat-like spikes
In August – December Northern sea oats bear pendulous panicles of oat-like spikelets, emerging green and turning bronze. They hang on all winter.
Size: 36" x 24"
Care: full sun to part shade in any soil
Native: Eastern U.S., New Jersey to Texas
Wildlife Value: attracts butterfliesIntroduced by Michaux (1746-1802) extraordinary French plant hunter, who searched much of eastern No. America for plants. Indians ate the seeds for food. Used ornamentally since Victorian times for fresh and dried arrangements.
