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Carex sprengelii
Also called Long Beaked Sedge, Sprengel Sedge, Long Beak Sedge, Longbeak Sedge
Sprengel's sedge is a grass-like perennial sedge native to North America, grown for its drooping, long-beaked seed heads. It is a species, not a genus, and suits naturalistic and woodland-edge plantings.
Carex sprengelii, known as Sprengel's sedge and long-beaked sedge, is a sedge with hanging seed heads, native to North America.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex sprengelii 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.
