Product Description
Carex buchananii 'Red Rooster'Common Names: Leatherleaf Sedge, Sedge Grass.
Zone: 7 to 9, evergreen in the southern zones.
Full sun in northern zones, but prefers partial to full shade.
Mature size: 18 to 24 inches mounding plant spreads slowly by rhizomes.
Long, fine-textured,dense, erect leaves of russet-red or a copper-bronze color.
Prefers moist, well-drained, loamy, sandy or clay soil, and performs great in water gardens. Dense, mound-forming habit will limit your weeding and brighten any area.
Use this ornamental in borders, containers, ground cover, rock gardens and water gardens or an aquarium. Maintenance free, trim to the ground in late winter, and deer resistant. Propagate by division in the spring, but do not divide clumps into little divisions, with small roots.
Ten (10) plants in quart containers per flat (or tray).