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Carex microglochin
Also called Bristle Sedge, False Uncinia Sedge, Few Seeded Bog Sedge, Few Seeded Fen Sedge, Minute Bristled Sedge, Short Awned Sedge, Small Tipped Sedge
Fewseeded bog sedge is a small perennial grass-like sedge of cold, wet bogs, fens and mountain meadows in temperate and subarctic regions. It is grown mainly by specialist and bog or wild-garden enthusiasts, and it needs consistently wet, cool conditions.
Carex microglochin, called the fewseeded bog sedge and bristle sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to temperate and subarctic North America, South America, Europe and Asia. It is uncertain which hemisphere it originated on before dispersing to the other.
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 microglochin 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.
