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| 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. | |