If you love sedges but have a sunny site, check out Carex crinita. This graceful and beautiful sedge grows naturally in open meadows, moist prairies, swamps and bogs, and along pond and stream banks.
Fringed Sedge is a tall and likes to fill out, benefitting from room to spread. Try it in a rain garden or along a border or even in a partly shady area.
Bonus: Fringed Sedge also is evergreen, and it grows in clumps up to 3 feet tall before flowering. In summer the flower spikelets droop, giving the sedge its name.
Fun fact: crinita means long-haired :)
Fringed Sedge
SKU: CC01-SS
$10.00 Regular Price
$6.00Sale Price
1 Quart
- Latin: Carex crinita
- Height: 2-3 feet tall; 3-4-foot spread
- Light: Sun to part shade
- Soil: Moist, wet
- Bloom: Green, May to June
- Foliage: Evergreen, shiny, blue-green
- Landscape: Native to wet meadows, swamps, marshes and bogs; uplands in medium moisture
- Resistance: Deer, rabbits, heavy clay, standing water
- Native range here