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Bladder Sedge
Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Bladder Sedge

Carex intumescens

Flowers from June into July. It grows wild in 34 of Florida’s 67 counties.

Light
Full shade to part sun
Soil
Average to wet soil
Size
2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers
Jun to Jul
Leaves
Deciduous
Roots
A clump of fibrous roots; wants 8 in of soil
Kind
Grass or sedge

At its grown size

Bladder Sedge, drawn in a bed

in flowerfall colorbare for winter

What it feeds

Caterpillars
18 kinds of caterpillars
Birds
50 kinds of birds

Grows well with

Facts from the Quercus record for Carex intumescens.