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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. |