| Scientific Name: | Carex testacea |
| Common Name: | copper hair sedge, New Zealand orange sedge |
| Family Name: | Cyperaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Brown, Jun |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves linear 40-60cm long x 1.5-4.5mm wide, arching, green near base to mostly coppery brown (on the same plant); fruit is a brown braid on 1mm floppy stalk (arching and trailing to the ground). | |