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Cyperaceae
Blue-green sedge
Carex flacca
Also known as Carex flacca, Carex flacca var. sylvatica, Carex glauca var. sylvatica, Blue sedge
Native Plants · Sedge · Blue-Green Foliage · Rain Garden · Wet Tolerant · Shade Tolerant · Clumping · Ornamental Grass · Groundcover
This attractive blue-green sedge forms neat clumps and thrives in moist, partially shaded locations. It's very low maintenance and can tolerate both wet and moderately dry conditions. Excellent for rain gardens, pond edges, or as groundcover in woodland settings.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Water when top inch of soil is dry, tolerates wet conditions · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 12 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Algeria, Argentina South, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Falkland Is., Finland, France, FøRoyar
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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