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Cyperaceae
Star sedge
Carex echinata
Also known as Carex echinata, Morning star sedge, White star sedge, Vignea echinata
Native Plants · Sedge · Shade Tolerant · Moist Soil · Woodland · Perennial · Clump-Forming · Stream Bank · Rain Garden · Low-Maintenance · Native
Star sedge is a compact, clump-forming perennial sedge that thrives in moist, partly shaded conditions such as woodland edges, stream banks, or rain gardens. It is very low maintenance once established and provides attractive fine-textured foliage year-round. Water regularly to keep the soil evenly moist and divide every few years to maintain healthy growth.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 4 hours
- Watering
- Keep soil consistently moist; does not tolerate prolonged drought · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 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
- Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Arizona, Austria, Azores, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Central European Rus, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark
- Attracts
- Birds
Sources: trefle, usda
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