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Carex radiata
Also called Radiate Sedge, Stellate Sedge, Straight Styled Wood Sedge, Bracted Sedge
Eastern star sedge is a small, clump-forming native sedge of eastern North America, grown for its yellowish-green foliage and star-like seed heads. It does best in cool, moist, shaded woodland conditions.
Carex radiata, the eastern star sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to central and eastern North America. It is cultivated for its yellowish-green foliage and its relatively—for a sedge—showy flowers.
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 radiata 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.
