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Carex siderosticta
Also called Creeping Broad Leaved Sedge, Creeping Broad Leaf Sedge, タガネソウ（tagane Sou）
Carex siderosticta is a low, rhizomatous perennial sedge from East Asia, grown mainly as a shade-tolerant groundcover or border plant in temperate gardens. It does best in cool, moist, humus-rich soil in shade.
Carex siderosticta is a species of sedge native to East Asia. It is the only species of Carex known to produce "pseudo-lateral" culms, which appear to be lateral, but derive from the apical meristem. It is the type species of Carex subg. Siderosticta.
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 siderosticta 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.
