Carex
Sedge
A diverse genus comprised of nearly 1000 species, most Carex originate in the moist habitats of temperate climates. Easily grown, our winning selections produce a variety of different colored leaves that promise to soften those sharp edges in your garden.
The bevy of eye-catching ½ in. wide, woolly, flaxen-yellow inflorescences achieves a showier and more generous display than its native North American counterpart. Evoking the namesake, ‘Straw Hat’s sprightly springtime blooms crest arching stalks and ultrathin semievergreen blades. Supported by slow-creeping rhizomes, the low, soft-looking medium green mound can be planted in drifts to create a pleasing grassy ground cover that relishes sun-dappled shade, loose well-drained loam and somewhat dry sites. (pp#29,423)
Blooms mid April–May
Size: 9" – 12" high x 12" – 15" wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Carex albula ‘Frosted Curls’
- Carex cherokeensis
- Carex conica ‘Snowline’
- Carex divulsa
- Carex dolichostachya ‘Kaga Nishiki’
- Carex elata ‘Aurea’
- Carex elata ‘Knightshayes’
- Carex ‘Feather Falls™’
- Carex flacca (glauca)
- Carex flacca ‘Burton’s Blue’
- Carex flaccosperma
- Carex flagellifera (Bronze)
- Carex morrowii ‘Ice Dance’
- Carex morrowii var. temnolepis ‘Silk Tassel’
- Carex muskingumensis ‘Little Midge’
- Carex muskingumensis ‘Oehme’
- Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’
- Carex oshimensis ‘Gold Strike’
- Carex pensylvanica
- Carex plantaginea
- Carex scaposa
- Carex ‘Silver Sceptre’
- Carex tenuiculmis
- Carex testacea
- Carex testacea ‘Prairie Fire’
- Carex texensis
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