Sallow Sedge
Carex lurida
Flowers from April into September. It grows wild in 62 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Apr to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 16 in of soil
- Kind
- Grass or sedge
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 21 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 50 kinds of birds
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Robin's-plantain
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Narrowleaf Sundrops
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Carex lurida.