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Carex breviscapa is a tussock-forming perennial sedge from forest edges and clearings across southeast Asia and northeast Australia. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, grown mainly for its grass-like foliage in shaded or woodland-style plantings.
Carex breviscapa is a tussock-forming perennial in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to eastern parts of the south east Asia and north eastern Australia
The sedge is often found in forested areas at an elevation of 400 to 1,000 m (1,300 to 3,300 ft). The range extends from China in the north west to Japan in the north east. It is also found as far west as Sri Lanka and then south of China in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia then through the islands of Borneo, Philippines, Indonesia and New Guinea and as far south east as Queensland in north east of Australia.
Carex abitibiana · Indian Valley sedge · Abruptbeak sedge · Thicket sedge · Small Dusky Sedge · Seoul Sedge · Acid Loving Sedge · Carex acocksii · Slender Tufted-sedge · Carex acutata · Lesser pond sedge · Circumpolar sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex breviscapa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
