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Plant profile · Austin & Hill Country

Slender Woodland Sedge

Carex digitalis
native · Central Texas

Slender Woodland Sedge is a grass native to Central Texas that grows 1 ft tall and 1 ft wide. It wants part shade to shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms brown and yellow in spring. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter.

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The facts

3 sources
Type
Grass
Sun
Part shade to shade (2–4 hrs of direct sun)
Water
Medium
Height
1 ft
Spread
1 ft
Bloom
Spring · brown, yellow
Foliage
Evergreen
Soil
Takes clay · recorded on clay, loam, moist, sand, well drained

Where it grows

Recorded in this EPA Level IV ecoregion in the Austin and Hill Country launch area:

Floodplains and Low Terraces

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.