Gray's Sedge
Carex grayi
Flowers from May into August. It grows wild in 14 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2.5 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.7 ft wide
- Flowers
- May to Aug
- 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
- 30 kinds of caterpillars
- Birds
- 50 kinds of birds
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Robin's-plantain
Heartleaf Aster
Facts from the Quercus record for Carex grayi.