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Plant: Pennsylvania - Carex Grass
Carex pensylvanica
$14.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Spring
More about this plant
Oak sedge is a fine-textured native sedge for dry to moist shade, forming slowly spreading semi-evergreen clumps only a few inches tall. It tolerates heavy shade, wet soil, drought and deer, and works as a shady lawn alternative or an underplanting for taller perennials. It does not like full sun or foot traffic.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-8
- Semi-Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Oak sedge is a fine-textured native sedge for dry to moist shade, forming slowly spreading semi-evergreen clumps only a few inches tall. It tolerates heavy shade, wet soil, drought and deer, and works as a shady lawn alternative or an underplanting for taller perennials. It does not like full sun or foot traffic.
- Flowers
- Insignificant spring spikelets, male above female.
- Foliage
- Fine lanceolate to linear leaves over 6 inches long and under an inch wide, papery, in a rosette.
- Fruit
- Small achenes displayed May to June.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Pruning
- When used as a lawn, mow once or twice a season to about 2 inches.
- Native range
- Central and eastern Canada to north-central and eastern U.S.
