Fringed Sedge
Carex crinita
Flowers from June into August. It grows wild in 8 of Georgia’s 159 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist to wet soil
- Size
- 4 ft to 5 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Jun to Aug
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots; wants 18 in of soil
- Kind
- Grass or sedge
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 23 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 50 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Swamp Azalea
Swamp Rosemallow
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Common Sneezeweed
Tall Blue Wild Indigo
Swamp Milkweed
Sweet Joe-pye-weed
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Facts from the Quercus record for Carex crinita.