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Carex trisperma
Also called Three-fruit sedge, Three-seeded sedge, Three Fruited Sedge, Three Seeded Bog Sedge
Threeseeded sedge is a clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial grass-like sedge native to bogs and wet forests of northeastern North America and Greenland. It thrives in consistently moist, acidic conditions and is best suited to a wet or boggy spot.
Carex trisperma, the three-seeded sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to Canada, Greenland, and the northeastern United States. It is typically found in acidic bogs within forests.
Carex trisperma has a circumpolar distribution, favouring wetland conditions, swampland, bogs within coniferous forests.
Carex abitibiana · Indian Valley sedge · Abruptbeak sedge · Thicket sedge · Small Dusky Sedge · Seoul Sedge · Acid Loving Sedge · Carex acocksii · Slender Tufted-sedge · Carex acutata · Lesser pond sedge · Circumpolar sedge
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Carex trisperma 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.
