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Carex limosa
Also called Bog Sedge, Muck Sedge, Shore Sedge
Mud sedge (Carex limosa) is a small perennial sedge of wet peat bogs and shorelines across the Northern Hemisphere. It needs constantly wet or waterlogged, acidic soil and cool conditions to thrive.
Carex limosa is a species of sedge known as bog-sedge, mud sedge, and shore sedge.
This sedge is an aquatic or shore plant which can most often be found in peat bogs in mountains. It is widely distributed across North America and northern Eurasia.
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 limosa 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.
