Carex laxiculmis

Sizes available: Landscape plug

Basics: zones 4-9, 6-12" x 12", part to full shade, small flower spikes in late spring, the blade-like, arching leaves have a blue-green cast, likes moist woodland soils on the alkaline side, but I think its pretty adaptable

Common names: Spreading Sedge, Creeping Sedge

Family: Cyperaceae

Origin/Distribution: In the U.S the range is from Maine to Florida and West to Minnesota and Arkansas. It is also native to Ontario and Quebec. Native to Maine

Habitat: moist woods and woodland edge, stream banks, swamp margins. According to Go Botany this sedge is characteristic of evergreen and mixed deciduous forests in New England and is often found near seeps or at a stream edge.

More: a gradual spreader through underground rhizomes, an attractive player in a woodland garden intermingled with ferns, Phlox divaricate 'May Breeze' and Heucheras like 'Dale's Strain' and 'Green Spice'. Sedges are excellent living ground cover and provide cool, moist shelter for numerous invertebrate species. Deer and Rabbit resistant

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