Bottle sedge
Carex rostrata
Common Name: Bottle sedge
Genus: Carex
Species: rostrata
Category: Aquatic & Bog Garden Plants
Height: 0.90 m (90 cm)
Spread: 0.60 m (60 cm)
Hardiness: Hardy
Growth Rate: Average
Flowering Period: June and July
Foliage Type: Evergreen
Foliage Colour: Green
Sun/Shade: Full sun or Partial shade
Soil Type: Normal/Loam or Clay/Heavy
Soil Moisture: Moist, but well drained or Boggy, poorly drained
Features: Has interesting foliage
A native of lake margins, swamps and boggy ditches this is an easy to grow sedge which will flourish in damp to wet soil in full sun or part shade. It is one of the taller water sedges and a remarkably robust plant. It produces an attractive flowerspike in mid summer which looks a little like a miniature bottlebrush. The mid green leaves can often have a bluish tinge to them and they are rarely eaten by hungry deer.
Garden Care: Cut brittle dead foliage right down to the ground in late winter before new growth appears.
Similar Plants:
Leatherleaf sedge
Carex buchananii
Bowles' golden sedge
Carex elata 'Aurea'
Palm branch sedge
Carex muskingumensis
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