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Carex dioica
Also called Separate Headed Sedge, Dvodomni šaš
A small, creeping perennial sedge native to cool temperate Europe and western Siberia, usually found in wet, lime-rich fens. It is grown mainly in bog or wetland gardens where its moisture and alkaline conditions can be matched.
Carex dioica, the dioecious sedge (a name it shares with Carex sterilis), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Iceland, the Faroes, Svalbard, nearly all of Europe, western Siberia, and the Altai. It prefers to live in calcareous fens.
Carex alba · Tall Sedge · Black-spike sedge · Asian Shortstem Sedge · Hair-like sedge · Carex curvula · Common Yellow Sedge · Teasel Sedge · Grassland sedge · Carex dolichostachya · Tufted Sedge · Elongated sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex dioica 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.
