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May 19, 2020Carex lurida #1 (Lurid Sedge)
$14.99
-Part Sun, Full Sun
-Moist to Wet Soil (OBL)
-Acidic to Neutral pH
-1-3′ Tall by 1-2′ Wide
-Clumping growth habit, Spreading
-Deer, Wet Soil tolerant
-Zone 4
-Semi-Evergreen
-Ohio Native
Out of stock
Lurid Sedge, also known as Sallow Sedge, is named after its vivid, yellow-green color. It maintains this color throughout the growing season and does not die back in the heat of summer, as long as it has consistent moisture. The semi-evergreen foliage persists through the winter months. It is a cool-season, clumping perennial that prefers to grow in moist or wet soils in part to full sun. It thrives in swampy areas, wet meadows and around bodies of water where it will spread by seed and by its fibrous, rhizomatous root system. The seeds provide food for birds and the plant is a larval host for many skippers and moths.
Sources:
Native Ferns, Moss, & Grasses by William Cullina
Missouri Botanical Garden
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Illinois Wildflowers
USDA Plants Database