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Carex ferruginea
Rust coloured sedge is a low, tufted perennial grass-like sedge of cold alpine meadows in Europe. It is grown mainly in cool gardens, and it needs moist soil and cool summers to thrive.
Carex ferruginea, the rusty sedge or rust-coloured sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to the Alps, the southern Carpathians, and the western Balkan Peninsula, and has been introduced to the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a glacial relict species.
This species is a part of the distinctive grassland communities along the alpine chain. A phytosociological survey of the south-eastern Alps described the new ecological association Hormino pyrenaici–Caricetum ferrugineae, highlighting the independence of this flora from that of the northern Alps.
The species ranges throughout the entire Alpine arc, the Jura, the southern Carpathians and parts of the Balkan Peninsula.
Carex alba · Tall Sedge · Black-spike sedge · Asian Shortstem Sedge · Hair-like sedge · Carex curvula · Common Yellow Sedge · Dioecious sedge · Teasel Sedge · Grassland sedge · Carex dolichostachya · Tufted Sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex ferruginea 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.
