Carex pensylvanica (3.5 inch pot)

Product Description

Carex pensylvanica

Common Name: Pennsylvania sedge 
Family: Cyperaceae

This species spreads quickly, forming a casual lawn alternative for shady places. 

• Zone: 3 to 9
• Height: 6 to 12 inches
• Spread: 6 to 12 inches
• Bloom Time: May
• Part shade to full shade
• Water: Dry to medium
• Maintenance: Low
• Deer resistant, and drought tolerant once established.
• Use: Ground Cover, Naturalize, Rain Garden, lawn alternative
• Tolerates Heavy Shade, Wet Soil
• Native eastern and central North America

Bright green foliage is narrow and elegantly arches to the ground. In the fall the foliage will turn to a sandy/tan color.

Very grasslike, with a mound of silky, fine leaves that are a lovely contrast to broad-leaved shade plants such as hostas, Siberian bugloss and wild ginger. It needs part to full shade, and can often tolerate even the dry shade under trees. This shade-loving lawn alternative is much in demand for installations large, small and in-between that call for native American species.

It's a quick but manageable spreader with rich green undulating blades

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