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Dimorphous Spike Sedge

Carex dimorpholepis

Dimorphous Spike Sedge
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0

Carex dimorpholepis is a tussock-forming perennial sedge from temperate Asia, grown mainly as an ornamental grass-like plant. It does best in consistently moist, well-drained soil with some light shade to part sun.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass, Perennial
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and water less in winter.
Soil
Moist, fertile, well-drained loam or garden soil.
Temperature
5–25 °C; hardy to around -15 °C in the ground.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Pakistan to C. & S. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Carex dimorpholepis is a tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to temperate parts of Asia from Pakistan in the west to Japan in the east.

Other Carex plants

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 dimorpholepis 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.

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