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Carex meadii
Also called Mead's Stiff Sedge, Mead Sedge
Mead's sedge is a rhizomatous perennial grass-like sedge native to prairies, savannas and open woods in central and eastern North America, reaching about 60 cm. It is grown in native plantings and wet-to-dry meadow gardens, and it prefers drier conditions than its look-alike Carex tetanica.
Carex meadii, called Mead's sedge, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to south-central and southeastern Canada, the central and eastern United States, and Chihuahua in Mexico. A rhizomatous perennial reaching 0.6 m (2 ft) with bluish-green to grayish-green leaf blades, it prefers it drier than the similar Carex tetanica.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex meadii 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.
