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Mead's Sedge (Carex meadii) 12-pack of plugs

$25.00

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***12-pack MINIMUM ORDER***: If ordering 12-packs, you must order *at least six 12-packs*. You can mix and match 12-packs of different species.

What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. They are a great option for planting large gardens. We plant all of our own projects with plugs.

Mead’s Sedge is a new sedge for gardens and landscaping. It grows in sunny meadows throughout the understory, almost invisible unless you happen to catch it in bloom in May. The silvery-green leaves are a nice contrast to other garden foliage. It starts out as a dense clump but then it spreads underground by rhizomes about 9 inches per year. The combination of spreading roots and short height might make it a great addition to a sunny lawn replacement.

In prairies it doesn’t seem to form dense colonies—instead, it mingles throughout the other prairie species—and we think it will behave in a similar way in gardens, at first starting strong but then settling down. Sedges re-sprout and bloom early in the spring while many warmer season species have barely woken up.

Sedges are an important piece of the prairie puzzle, and we think that short, spreading sedges like Mead’s Sedge play an especially pivotal role by filling the groundcover gaps with early season green.

Details

Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium, Dry
Height: 1 ft
Blooms: May
Color: Silver, Green
Spacing: 18-24”
Zones: 3-8
Benefits: Groundcover, Deer Resistant

Design Tips

Mead’s Sedge starts out as a dense clump but then spreads underground about 9 inches per year. Plant it with other vigorous meadow species such as Meadow Blazing Star or Bottle Gentian that can poke through the rhizomes. Mead's Sedge (Carex meadii) is a valuable plant that can be scattered throughout a prairie to give green growth during the spring when all of the warm-season plants are still dormant and brown.

Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!