carex

sedge

These grass-like plants are grown mainly for their typically evergreen leaves, which combine well with other ornamental grasses and are used in prairie-style plantings of robust summer-flowering perennials. The types for wet soil can be grown at the edges of ponds.

Carex testacea ‘Prairie Fire’ ‘Evergold’ is an evergreen sedge forming a clump to 30cm in height, the narrow arching leaves each with a central yellow stripe.

Classification

• Common Names: sedge

• Family: Cyperaceae

• Variety: testacea

20190407_170813.jpg: 2020-11-14 bought in grasses

Propagation Notes

• Plant Type: Grass

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20190514_194542.jpg: 2020-11-14 Cares grass sedge

Carex grass, sedge

Carex is a vast genus of more than 2,000 species of grass-like plants in the family Cyperaceae, commonly known as sedges. Other members of the family Cyperaceae are also called sedges, however those of genus Carex may be called true sedges, and it is the most species-rich genus in the family. The study of Carex is known as caricology.

Classification

• Common Names: Carex grass, sedge

• Family: Cyperaceae

• Variety:

20190514_195422.jpg: 2020-11-14 grass in a pot

Propagation Notes

• Plant Type: Grass

• Propagation:

• Hardiness:

• Flowering Season:

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20190514_195337.jpg: 2020-11-14 Carex morrowii