Can’t be shipped.
Mead’s Sedge is a new sedge for gardens and landscaping. It grows in sunny meadows throughout the understory, almost invisible unless you happen to catch it in bloom in May. The silvery-green leaves are a nice contrast to other garden foliage. It starts out as a dense clump but then it spreads underground by rhizomes about 9 inches per year. The combination of spreading roots and short height might make it a great addition to a sunny lawn replacement. Sedges re-sprout and bloom early in the spring while many warmer season species have barely woken up.
Sedges are an important piece of the prairie puzzle, and we think that short, spreading sedges like Mead’s Sedge play an especially pivotal role by filling the groundcover gaps with early season green. In prairies it doesn’t seem to form dense colonies—instead, it mingles throughout the other prairie species.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium-Dry, Medium, Medium-Wet
Height: 1 ft
Blooms: May
Color: Silver, Green
Spacing: 18-24”
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Groundcover, Deer Resistant
Mead’s Sedge starts out as a dense clump but then spreads underground about 9 inches per year. Plant it with other vigorous meadow species such as Meadow Blazing Star or Bottle Gentian that can poke through the rhizomes. Mead's Sedge (Carex meadii) is a valuable plant that can be scattered throughout a prairie to give green growth during the spring when all of the warm-season plants are still dormant and brown.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Prairie Loosestrife
Meadow Blazing Star
Prairie Phlox
Can’t be shipped.
Mead’s Sedge is a new sedge for gardens and landscaping. It grows in sunny meadows throughout the understory, almost invisible unless you happen to catch it in bloom in May. The silvery-green leaves are a nice contrast to other garden foliage. It starts out as a dense clump but then it spreads underground by rhizomes about 9 inches per year. The combination of spreading roots and short height might make it a great addition to a sunny lawn replacement. Sedges re-sprout and bloom early in the spring while many warmer season species have barely woken up.
Sedges are an important piece of the prairie puzzle, and we think that short, spreading sedges like Mead’s Sedge play an especially pivotal role by filling the groundcover gaps with early season green. In prairies it doesn’t seem to form dense colonies—instead, it mingles throughout the other prairie species.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium-Dry, Medium, Medium-Wet
Height: 1 ft
Blooms: May
Color: Silver, Green
Spacing: 18-24”
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Groundcover, Deer Resistant
Mead’s Sedge starts out as a dense clump but then spreads underground about 9 inches per year. Plant it with other vigorous meadow species such as Meadow Blazing Star or Bottle Gentian that can poke through the rhizomes. Mead's Sedge (Carex meadii) is a valuable plant that can be scattered throughout a prairie to give green growth during the spring when all of the warm-season plants are still dormant and brown.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Prairie Loosestrife
Meadow Blazing Star
Prairie Phlox
