Tissue Sedge
Carex hyalinanative · Central Texas
Tissue Sedge is a grass native to Central Texas that grows 2–3 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants part shade to shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms brown, green and yellow in spring.
Wet ground only. Usually found in wetlands and creek bottoms. It wants reliably moist ground and struggles in a dry upland bed.
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The facts
3 sources- Type
- Grass
- Sun
- Part shade to shade (2–4 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 2–3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Spring · brown, green, yellow
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, moist, mud, 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.