| Scientific Name: | Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' |
| Common Name: | frosted sedge, creeping Japanese sedge |
| Family Name: | Cyperaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Aquatic - ponds, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Small garden/space, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Brown, May |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Medium sized sedge (larger than C. 'Snowline'), spreading (baby plants around the base in contrast to the pure clumping of other Carex); leaves 30-45cm long x 6-13mm wide, variegated pale yellow on both margins. | |