| Scientific Name: | Carex elata 'Aurea' |
| Common Name: | Bowles' golden sedge |
| Family Name: | Cyperaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Dried flower or fruit, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Spring interest, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves variegated with a wedge, 70-90cm long x 8-12mm wide, angular lengthwise folds; fruit cluster typical of sedges, 1.2cm long x 2mm wide, brown. | |