Carolina Sedge
Carex caroliniananative · Central Texas
Carolina Sedge is a grass native to Central Texas that grows 1–1.5 ft tall. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms green and white in spring. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter.
Wet ground only. A wetland plant: it needs standing water or saturated soil — a pond edge, creek bank or rain garden, not a dry upland bed.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Grass
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–1.5 ft
- Bloom
- Spring · green, white
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, moist, rich, well drained
Where it grows
Recorded in these EPA Level IV ecoregions in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:
Southern Post Oak SavannaFloodplains and Low TerracesSan Antonio Prairie
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.