Awlfruit Sedge
Carex stipata
Awlfruit sedge forms big soft tussocks with knobby greenish seed heads in wet woods, ditches, and marsh edges, quick to establish for rain gardens.
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Type
- grass
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- wet, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral, acidic
- 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, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV