Fox Sedge is a beautiful perennial that has a large native range over the contiguous United States and southern Canada, except for Utah and covering only some areas in the western US states, growing naturally in moist or draining wet sites. It is sold by a good number of native plant nurseries, as Prairie Nursery in Wisconsin, New Moon Nursery in New Jersey, and North Creek Nursery in southeast Pennsylvania. It is a cool season plant beginning growth in usually like April, but depending on far north or south it is growing so it can start in March or May also. Its soft, grassy leaves get about 3 feet long and 1/8th of an inch wide. It bears stiff greenish or yellowish flower heads in late spring about 5 inches long that become brown seed heads in summer and look like fox tails. its root system is mostly fibrous but it does produce short rhizomes so that a clump can become a small colony. It is a host plant for Skipper Butterflies to feed a little on the foliage. It makes a good choice for a rain garden, erosion control, and bordering water courses or ponds.

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