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Carex Milk Chocolate (Carex 'Milchoc' )

Other names: Sedge Milk Chocolate

Milk Chocolate is an evergreen grass with glossy arching leaves that have yellow and red tints when new, ageing to brown and becoming orange-tinted in the autumn.
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0.4m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex 'Ice Dance' (Japanese sedge 'Ice Dance')

Other names: Morrow's sedge 'Ice Dance', Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'

'Ice Dance' is a mound-forming, evergreen perennial bearing long, linear, stiff, dark green leaves with creamy-white margins and insignificant, pale brown flowers in late spring.
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0.75m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex phyllocephala 'Sparkler' (Carex phyllocephala 'Sparkler')

'Sparkler' is an evergreen sedge with whorled, strap-like leaves that are light-green with cream margins on an upright stem. In summer it bears a central cluster of brush-like flowers.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire' (Orange New Zealand sedge 'Prairie Fire' )

'Prairie Fire' is a tender, densely-tufted, evergreen perennial with narrowly-linear, arching, orange-flushed, olive green leaves turning orange red in autumn and cylindrical, red-flushed, brown flowers spikes in summer.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex otrubae (False fox sedge)

Other names: Carex obtrubae, Carex cuprina

C. otrubae is a tufted, clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial with linear, finely toothed, mid- to pale green leaves and, in summer, cylindrical spikes of green to orange-brown flowers with bristle-like, pale yellow bracts.
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0.5m max. spread

0.7m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex sylvatica (Wood sage)

Other names: European woodland sedge, Forest sedge

C. sylvatica is a clump-forming, evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial with slightly keeled, glossy, mid-green leaves and pale yellow flower spikelets in summer.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex lupulina (Hop sedge)

C. lupulina is a clump-forming, deciduous, perennial grass with upright to arching, flat, linear, mid-green leaves and hop-like, light green flower spikelets in late spring and early summer.
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0.6m max. spread

0.8m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex morrowii (Japanese sedge)

Other names: Morrow's sedge

C. morrowii is a clump-forming evergreen ornamental grass forming long, narrow and arching green leaves.
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0.75m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex muskingumensis (Palm branch sedge)

Other names: Palm sedge, Palm leaf sedge, Umbrella flat sedge

C. muskingumensis is a spreading, loosely tufted, deciduous perennial with narrow, bright green leaves borne on erect stems and spikes of golden-brown flowers in mid- to late spring.
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0.45m max. spread

0.75m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex grayi (Mace sedge)

Other names: Gray sedge, Gray's sedge, Common bur sedge, Morning star sedge

C. grayi is a dense, clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial grass with upright, linear, dark green leaves and mid-green flower spikes in summer followed by star-shaped, pale green seed heads.
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0.6m max. spread

0.75m max. height

2-5 years to maturity