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Cyperaceae
Carex myosuroides
Carex myosuroides
Also known as Carex scirpina, Kobresia myosuroides, Elyna filiformis, Carex vulcanicola
Native Plants · Sedge · Alpine · Carex · Cool Climate · Moist Soil · Rock Garden · Grasslike · Perennial · Cyperaceae · Subarctic
Carex myosuroides, commonly known as mousetail sedge, is a fine-leaved alpine sedge suited to cool, moist garden settings such as rock gardens, alpine troughs, or streamside plantings. It is an undemanding plant that performs best in partial shade with consistently moist, humus-rich soil. Little maintenance is needed beyond occasional tidying of old foliage in early spring.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water regularly to maintain consistent soil moisture; tolerates brief dry spells · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 10 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Austria, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, China North-Central, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Idaho, Inner Mongolia, Italy, Japan
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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