Crested Sedge
Carex cristatella
Crested sedge is a clumping wet-meadow sedge with bristly, star-like seed heads, quick to establish in sunny moist ground. Good for wetland restoration and rain gardens.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, rain garden, naturalizing
- Native states
- CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA, VT, WI