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Teasel Sedge

Carex dipsacea

Teasel Sedge
Photo: Daderot, CC0

Teasel sedge is a clump-forming sedge from New Zealand, grown for its colourful autumn foliage, and it prefers poorly drained soils. The cultivar 'Dark Horse' is widely sold.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, tolerating wet or boggy conditions.
Soil
Poorly drained, moisture-retentive soil, including damp garden beds or pond margins.
Temperature
Hardy in mild temperate climates; protect from hard frost in colder areas.
How easy
Easy
Native range
New Zealand
Climate
temperate

About

Carex dipsacea, the teasel sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to New Zealand. Preferring poorly drained soils, it is planted as an ornamental for its colorful autumn foliage. There is a cultivar, 'Dark Horse', which is commercially available.

Other Carex plants

Carex alba · Tall Sedge · Black-spike sedge · Asian Shortstem Sedge · Hair-like sedge · Carex curvula · Common Yellow Sedge · Dioecious sedge · Grassland sedge · Carex dolichostachya · Tufted Sedge · Elongated sedge

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex dipsacea 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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