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Carex trifida
Carex trifida is a sedge (a grass-like plant, not a true grass) native to cool, windswept islands of the southern Pacific and southern South America, grown for its tufted foliage. It does best in cool, moist, open conditions and is not a demanding plant.
Carex trifida, the mutton-bird sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to Macquarie Island of Australia, the South Island, the Antipodes Islands, and the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, southern Chile, and the Falkland Islands. There are a number of cultivars, including 'Rekohu Sunrise', 'Glauca', and 'Chatham Blue'.
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 trifida 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.
