Carex molesta

  • An adaptable sedge that grows up to three feet tall and is perfect for the low-maintenance gardener. Known for its dense, clump forming habit and pine-cone shaped seedheads, it features fine-textured, arching leaves that add a soft, flowing look to any garden setting.

  • This sedge can handle any spot you put it in. Full sun to deep shade, wet to bone dry.

  • While it ranges in environments it can handle and requires little to no maintenance, it is one of the more competitive sedges and spreads very easily, forming dense clumps. This can be easily controlled by occasionally thinning or transplanting.

  • Found in much of the Northeast through Midwest its natural habitat includes everything from prairies, to wetlands, to disturbed sites such as roadsides or man-made habitats,

  • As a cool-season grower, this sedge grows to full size in the spring offering a brilliant, full, green look very early in the season. Its notable seed heads set in early summer, often lasting through fall until the begins to fade and goes dormant in wintertime.

  • Plays an important role in supporting local ecosystems by providing habitat, acting a food, stabilizing soils, and filling spaces helping to prevent the spread on undesirable plants.

Field Oval Sedge

Pairs Well With

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Echinacea paradoxa

Asclepias syriaca

Penstemon digitalis

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Full sun, dry soil

Full sun, moist soil

Mixed shade, dry soil

Mixed shade, moist soil