Scientific Name: Carex flacca
Common Name: blue creeping sedge
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Ground cover, Poales (grass-like)
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Dense, Spreading
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Alpine, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire
Flowers: Spikelet, Red, Brown, Jun
Fruit: Achene, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Dense, clump-forming grass-like ground cover; leaves arching, blue-green; spikes cylindrical, most 2-7cm long.