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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 oshimensis 'Everest' (Sedge 'Everest')

Other names: Carex oshimensis 'CarFit01', Carex oshimensis 'Fiwhite', Carex oshimensis 'Carfitol', Carex morrowii 'Everest', White variegated Japanese sedge

'Everest' is a dense, tufted, evergreen, perennial grass forming a mound of narrow, arching, glossy, dark green leaves with white margins and lax stems bearing brown flower spikes in summer.
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0.6m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex elata 'Aurea' (Bowles' golden sedge)

Other names: Carex stricta 'Aurea', Carex elata 'Bowles' Golden', Carex acuta 'Aurea', Carex flava 'Aurea'

'Aurea' is a semi-evergreen, clump-forming perennial with linear, arching, yellow leaves narrowly edged with green. Brown male flower spikes are borne above green female spikes in late spring and early summer.
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0.5m max. spread

0.7m 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

Carex pseudocyperus (Cyperus sedge)

Other names: Hop sedge, Sedge hop

C. pseudocyperus is a slowly-spreading, rhizomatous, deciduous perennial forming clumps of broad, linear to lance-shaped, bright green leaves. It bears drooping yellow-green flower spikes in late spring, which form brown catkins later on.
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0.6m max. spread

0.9m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Carex tenuiculmis (New Zealand hair sedge)

Other names: Cinnamon sedge, Bronze sedge, Carex secta var. tenuiculmis

C. tenuiculmis is a densely tufted, evergreen perennial with linear, grass-like, brown to bronze-red leaves and spikes of pale brown flowers from late spring into 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 hirta (Goose grass)

Other names: Hairy sedge , Hammer sedge

C. hirta is a clump-forming, deciduous, perennial grass with linear, hairy, mid-green leaves, triangular in cross-section, and, from early summer to early autumn, elongated panicles of pale yellow flower spikelets followed by beaked, downy, pale green fruit.
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0.6m max. spread

0.7m max. height

2-5 years to maturity