Bladder Sedge
Carex intumescens
Flowers from June into July. It grows wild in 33 of Kentucky’s 120 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
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 23 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 50 kinds of birds
Grows well with
Lyreleaf Sage
Carolina Phlox
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Facts from the Quercus record for Carex intumescens.