Graceful Sedge
Carex gracillima
Graceful sedge drapes thread-fine, nodding seed spikes over arching clumps in moist woodlands, one of the most elegant native sedges for shade gardens.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV
Related native plants
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- Gray's Sedge (Carex grayi)
- Plantain-leaved Sedge (Carex plantaginea)
- Cherokee Sedge (Carex cherokeensis)
- Pennsylvania Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
- Slough Sedge (Carex obnupta)
- Eastern Woodland Sedge (Carex blanda)