Yellowfruit Sedge
Carex annectens
Yellowfruit sedge is an adaptable clumping sedge of wet meadows and disturbed moist ground, with knobby yellow-green seed heads. A quick colonizer for rain gardens.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV