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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 oshimensis 'Evergold' (Sedge 'Evergold')

'Evergold' is a clump-forming, evergreen, grass-like sedge bearing long, arching, linear, mid-green leaves, each with a central, pale yellow stripe. Inconspicuous, brown flower spikelets bloom in summer.
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0.4m max. spread

0.3m 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 pendula (Pendulous sedge)

C. pendula is a grassy perennial with long, dropping red-brown flowers in summer.
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1.5m max. spread

1.4m 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 acutiformis (Swamp sedge)

Other names: Marsh sedge, Lesser pond sedge, Carex paludosa, Lesser bank sedge, Sniddel , Sniddels

C. acutiformis is a vigorous, spreading, rhizomatous perennial with linear, red- or brown-flushed, light green leaves and slender, erect stems bearing dark brown flower spikes in summer.
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1.2m max. spread

1.2m 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