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 |
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0.6m max. height |
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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 |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex comans (Bronze New Zealand hair sedge)
C. comans bronze forms a dense tuft of narrow, linear, reddish-brown leaves, with inconspicuous brown flower spikes.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex flagellifera (Glen Murray tussock sedge)
Other names: Carex flagellaris 'Cyperacea' , Weeping brown sedge, Orange hair sedge, Carex lucida
C. flagellifera forms clumps of linear, reddish-brown leaves, and tall stems of pale brown flower spikes in late summer.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex buchananii (Leatherleaf Sedge)
C. buchanii is a clump-forming, upright grass with narrow reddish brown leaves curling at the tips.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex comans Green form (Sedge Green form)
Green form has dense tufts of pale greenish-yellow, thread-like foliage. Moves in the wind.
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0.75m max. spread |
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0.25m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex comans red-leaved (Red New Zealand hair sedge)
Other names: New Zealand hair sedge red-leaved, Carex comans 'Red'
C. comans red-leaved is a tufted, evergreen perennial with narrowly linear, arching, reddish-brown leaves and inconspicuous brown flower spikelets in late summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.45m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex 'Red Rooster' (Leatherleaf sedge 'Red Rooster')
Other names: Carex buchananii 'Red Rooster', Buchanan's sedge 'Red Rooster'
'Red Rooster' is a dense, tufted, evergreen, perennial grass with narrow, arching, glossy, orange- to reddish-brown leaves and lax stems bearing brown flower spikes in summer.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.75m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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