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Carex pilosa
Also called Pilose Leaf Sedge
Hairy sedge is a grass-like perennial woodland plant from central and eastern Europe that often forms a dense ground cover under trees. It grows best in moist, shaded, cool woodland conditions.
Carex pilosa, the hairy sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to central and eastern Europe as far as the Urals. It is typically found in temperate forests, where it may be the dominant species on the forest floor.
C. pilosa favours woodland habitats, including oak and hornbeam forests, herb-rich beech forests and alluvial forests.
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 pilosa 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.
