Beaked Sedge
Carex rostrata
Beaked sedge is a blue-green, rhizomatous sedge of fens, bogs, and shallow water, forming extensive northern wetland stands prized by waterfowl.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- May, June
- Bloom colors
- green, brown
- Wildlife value
- songbirds, larval host, mammals
- Landscape uses
- specimen, border, rain garden, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NV, NY, OR, PA, UT, WA, WI, WY