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Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Partial or Dappled Shade
Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 2 Feet
Flowers: Other: flowers are small and combined into spikes
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Water gardens
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: Cold Stratification
Days to germinate: 60
Suitable for wintersowing
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Deflexed Bottle-Brush Sedge
  • Sedge
  • Knotsheath Sedge

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Location: Wet area in our yard, near Central Iowa
Date: 2015-06-10
Close-up of seed heads early in the season.  They will darken lat
Location: Our Prairie to be, near Central Iowa
Date: 2015-06-10
Comments:
  • Posted by Chillybean (Iowa - Zone 5a) on Jul 24, 2015 5:05 PM concerning plant:
    This native-to-U.S. plant was a risk on my part. We cannot guarantee heavy rains every spring and summer. I've been supplementing with collected rainwater and it is doing well this first year. We bought the two plants as dormant bare roots and they formed their seed heads in about a month. Their most active growing times are in the spring and fall, but they will grow when the temps are cooler in the summer.

    This plant is listed as endangered in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

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