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 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 |
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0.6m max. height |
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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 |
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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 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 |
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0.6m 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 pansa (California meadow sedge)
Other names: California field sedge, Carex praegracilis misapplied, Pacific dune sedge
C. pansa is a tender, rhizomatous, evergreen perennial forming spreading clumps of linear, upright to arching, dark green leaves and tiny, inconspicuous, rounded, yellow-green flower spikelets in spring.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Other names: Mutton bird sedge
C. trifida is a tufted, clump-forming, evergreen perennial with grass-like, keeled, linear, arching, sometimes bronze-flushed, mid- to dark green leaves and dense clusters of brown flower spikelets in summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.9m 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 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 |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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