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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Healthy, vigorous, well-packaged and safely arrived!
The plants were healthy. the packaging kept them looking good even though I couldn't open for four days. Sizing was consistent. About 2/3 had sufficient root systems to plant intact, so some could have matured a bit more in the container, but they all seem to be doing very well. Well priced and great service.
