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 is tall for a sedge, and it 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 :)