Description

Carex crinita Fringed sedge, Wholesale Native Grass Plugs, VA ecotype

Botanic Name (s): Carex crinita

Common Name(s): Fringed sedge

Mature height : 1-3ft

Mature spread: 1-3ft

Bloom Time : June-August

Sun Exposure: Full Sun Part Sun

Soil moisture: Wet

Soil Ph:6.8-8.9

Soil Type: Clay Soil- High clay content, fine texture

Loamy Soil- mostly silt, sand, some clay

Native Habitat: Shallow emergent marshes, shrub swamps, floodplain forests, hardwood swamps

Notes: Grows in clumps, tolerates flooding to 6 inches

Erosion Control Flood Tolerant

High Wildlife Value: Songbirds Game Birds Small Mammals Waterfowl

FACW- Usually occur in wetlands, but may occur in non-wetlands

OBL- Almost always occur in wetlands

Native to Coastal Regions

Native To Mountain Regions

Native to Piedmont Regions

Native Grass

Carex is a large genus, with over 600 species in North America and 150+ in Minnesota alone. They are grouped into sections, the species in each group having common traits. Carex crinita is in the Phacocystis section (a combination of former Acutae and Cryptocarpae sections); some of its common traits are: typically clump forming and rhizomatous, leaves V or M-shaped in cross-section when young and hairless except along the edges, spikes long and cylindric, spikes drooping on slender stalks to nearly stalkless, terminal spike usually all staminate or with a few perigynia at the tip, perigynia densely packed, green to brownish, 2-ribbed, weakly veined and short-beaked, achenes lens-shaped with 2 stigmas, growing in wetlands and other wet places.

Carex crinita, called fringed sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to central and eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States.^[2] It is the namesake of the Carex crinita species complex.^[3]

Carex crinita Fringed sedge, Wholesale Native Grass Plugs, VA ecotype

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