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Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 15 to 24 inches
Plant Spread: 2 to 4 feet
Flowers: Other: flowers are small and combined into spikes
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Suitable Locations: Bog gardening
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Flood Resistant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious
Conservation status: Least Concern (LC)

Conservation status:
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Common names
  • Yellow Fruit Sedge
  • Sedge
  • Yellowfruit Sedge

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Location: Mount Cuba Center, Hockessin, Delaware
Date: 2018-06-29
yellowish flower spikes and foliage
Location: Mount Cuba Center, Hockessin, Delaware
Date: 2018-06-29
a specimen in the trial garden
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Jul 5, 2018 1:37 PM concerning plant:
    This yellow-fruited or Small Yellow Fox Sedge has a large range from southern Ontario & Quebec down into Texas to Florida, growing in sunny or part-shaded wetlands. Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina sells plants in 3.5 inch pots by mail and shows a photo of a dense rounded clump about 15 inches high by 4 feet wide with lots of the yellowish stout spikes right above the foliage. Prairie Moon Nursery in southern Minnesota sells seed. The other sources online show natural, taller plants that are not so tight in clump to 24 inches high. The blades are 2 to 6 mm wide or to almost 1/4 inch wide.

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