Carex prairea
- Perennial
- Family:
Cool Grass Sedge - Soil Type:
Calciferous - Light Requirements:
Full Sun - Water Requirements:
Wet, Medium Wet - Propagation:
Seed - Blooms:
June/July - Height:
3′ - Stems:
Veinless band of sheath: yellow brown - Leaves:
1-3mm wide, ovate perigynia, tapers to beak, scaly - Attracts:
Mitchell’s Brown Satyr Butterfly,
Special Considerations:
Rare/endangered in some areas
Clumping
Spacing: 1-2′
Source: Prairie Moon Nursery
