Scientific Name: Carex talbotii
Common Name: Berggren's sedge, dwarf bronze creeping sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Poales (grass-like)
Mature Size: 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Upright
Form: Mounded
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Alpine, Aquatic - ponds, Container planting, Ground cover, Hanging basket, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire, Serrate
Flowers: Spikelet, Brown, Jun
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Low-growing tufted clump; leaves locally "evergreen", linear, 3-6cm long x 1.5-3mm wide, evergreen, coppery-bronze.