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Thin-spiked wood-sedge

Carex strigosa

Thin-spiked wood-sedge
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0

Carex strigosa is a woodland sedge native to Europe and the Caucasus, grown mainly as a shade-loving ground cover or woodland plant. It does best in cool, moist, humus-rich soil in shade.

Family
Cyperaceae (Cyper family)
Grows as
Grass
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and avoid letting it dry out completely.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained woodland soil.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate climates; protect from prolonged heat and drought.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Europe to N. Iran
Climate
temperate

About

Carex strigosa, the thin-spiked wood sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Europe and the Caucasus region. Its diploid chromosome number is 2n=66.

Other Carex plants

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 strigosa 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.

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