Scientific Name: Carex comans
Common Name: Frosted Curls sedge, Bronze sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Origin: Australia / New Zealand, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Poales (grass-like)
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Dense
Form: Mounded
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Alpine, Bedding plant, Container planting, Fall interest, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Serrulate
Flowers: Spikelet, White, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, linear, 20-40cm long x 1-2mm wide, base wedged, apex curled, locally "evergreen" (bronze cvs.); fruit brown, 2cm braid on a 1.5cm trailing stalk.