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Carex lachenalii
Also called Twoparted Sedge, Hare's Foot Sedge, Lachenal's Sedge, Arctic Hare's Foot Sedge, Two Parted Sedge, Two Tipped Sedge, Two Tip Sedge
Twotipped sedge is a small, tufted perennial grass-like plant from cool northern and subarctic regions, grown mainly in cold-climate or alpine-style gardens. It thrives in cool, moist conditions and is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Carex lachenalii, called the twotipped sedge and hare's foot sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to temperate and subarctic North America, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, and Asia, and the South Island of New Zealand. Its diploid chromosome number is 2n=64, with some uncertainty.
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 lachenalii 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.
