Carex albicans ~ White Tinged Sedge-ServeScape
Carex albicans ~ White Tinged Sedge-ServeScape
Carex albicans ~ White Tinged Sedge-ServeScape
Carex albicans ~ White Tinged Sedge-ServeScape

Carex albicans

White Tinged Sedge

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**Dormancy Note - This plant is currently dormant for the winter! It is available for purchase! Your delivered plant may be dormant, or showing very little top growth. However, you can still plant! These plants are putting all their energy into root production, so they will be ready to thrive in the spring! If you have any issues with your plant the following peak season, you can fill out our return request form to request a replacement plant.

White Tinged Sedge is a clumping native shade-loving semi-evergreen grass with wispy upright arching bright green grass-like foliage.  Small staminate with green to straw colored spikelets tinged with red-purple and white margins go up in early spring.  Prefers partial sun and well-drained soils.  Drought tolerant.

Type: 

Orn. Grass

Origins:

East N. America; SE Native

Height: 

1' - 1.5'

Spread: 

1’ - 1.5’

Spacing: 

1’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

4 - 8

Culture: 

Part Sun, Full Shade

Bloom Color: 

White

Season of Interest: 

Spring, Year-Round

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance. It can be planted in near full sun if the soil is consistently moist but will have less color.  Cut foliage to the ground and remove it in late winter.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Gardens, Wildlife Gardens, Naturalized Areas, Native Gardens, Rock Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS: Wild Columbine, Goldenstar, Prairie Smoke

IMAGES: Photo set by Doug McGrady, (1) Carex albicans (white-tinged sedge), Glocester, RI, (2) Carex albicans var. albicans (white-tinged sedge), Cumberland, RI

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

Carex albicans ~ White Tinged Sedge-ServeScape

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