Cyperaceae
Hair sedge
Carex capillaris
Also known as Tufted hair sedge, Carex capillaris, Capillary sedge, Loxotrema capillaris
Native Plants · Sedge · Ornamental Grass · Moisture Loving · Rock Garden · Cool Climate · Native · Wetland · Perennial · Fine Texture · Groundcover
Hair sedge is a delicate, fine-textured ornamental grass suited to moist, cool garden beds, rock gardens, and naturalistic plantings. Plant in a location with partial to full sun and keep the soil consistently moist, especially during the growing season. It requires minimal care once established and is an excellent choice for erosion control or naturalizing along pond edges.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil evenly moist; does not tolerate prolonged dryness · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.8–7.4
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
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
- Green · Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, British Columbia, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, Finland, France, FøRoyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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