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Long-stalked yellow-sedge

Carex lepidocarpa

Long-stalked yellow-sedge
Photo: Marie PORTAS, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr

Carex lepidocarpa, the long-stalked yellow-sedge, is a perennial grass-like sedge native to eastern Canada, Europe and Morocco, grown mainly in wet and boggy garden areas. It is a member of the Carex flava complex, and its care is generally that of a moist-soil native sedge.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, as it naturally grows in wet, boggy ground.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich or peaty soil, acidic to neutral.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters; tolerates frost well, but is best kept cool in summer.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. Canada, Europe to NW. Africa
Climate
temperate

About

Carex lepidocarpa, called the long-stalked yellow-sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to eastern Canada, Morocco, and most of Europe. It is a member of the Carex flava species complex.

Other Carex plants

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 lepidocarpa 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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