SEDGES & GRASSES
- Appalachian Sedge
- Carex appalachica
- Light: part shade to shade
- Height: 10-12"
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- Culture and Notes: Made for dry shade! Will thrive in part shade and average soil, too. Reduce your carbon footprint by using it as a lovely, no-mow lawn or plant as textural contrast for broad leaved annuals and perennials. Slender, languid stems flow like water.
- Big Bluestem
- Andropogon gerardii
- Light: sun to part sun
- Height: 4-8'
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- Culture and Notes: Prefers moist soil but will grow anywhere. Handsome tall red stems in the fall. Beautiful in mass plantings or a mixed meadow. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.
- Hairgrass
- Deschampsia flexuosa
- Light: part shade to shade
- Height: 8-18"
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- Culture and Notes: This drought tolerant grass forms tidy clumps of fine-textured blades that resemble luxurious hair. Late spring inflorescences arch gracefully.
- Indian Grass
- Sorghastrum nutans
- Light: sun to part sun
- Height: 3-8', spreads to 2'
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- Culture and Notes: Does well in all conditions, except with wet feet. Beautiful translucent yellow-deep gold fall color. A tall grass, great for a border accent or screen, forms tall narrow clumps that can be used in fresh or dried arrangements. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.
- Little Bluestem
- Schizachyrium scoparium
- Light: sun to part sun
- Height: 3-4'
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- Culture and Notes: Does well in many conditions, but favors poor, dry soil. Great as a large-scale groundcover or mixed border, matures to a beautiful burnt orange in fall. Can be used for erosion control, seeds attract birds, foliage can be bunched and braided into wreaths. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.
- Pennsylvania Sedge
- Carex pensylvanica
- Light: part shade to shade
- Height: 8-12"
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- Culture and Notes: Does well in any shady environment, particularly as a groundcover under oaks. Forms a loose shady lawn over time.
- Plantain-Leaf Sedge
- Carex plantageinea
- Light: part shade to shade
- Height: 8-10"
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- Culture and Notes: Shiny green broad leaves provides excellent texture in a shade garden. Prefers average to moist soil. Companion plant with Wild Bleeding Heart and Wild Columbine.
- Purple Love Grass
- Eragrostis spectabilis
- Light: sun to part sun
- Height: 18-24"
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- Culture and Notes: Fluffy plumes of bronze-red in late summer come to life in prisms of color in the morning dew. Prefers dry, sandy soil.
- Silver Sedge
- Carex platyphylla
- Light: part shade to shade
- Height: 8-12"
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- Culture and Notes: Powder blue leaves up to an inch or more wide spread forming slowly expanding clumps in moist or rich soil. Companion plant with Meadow Rue, Wild Bleeding Heart and Wild Ginger. A native alternative to hostas. Rare and endangered in Massachusetts.
- Vanilla Sweet Grass
- Hierchloe odorata
- Light: sun
- Height: 2'
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- Culture and Notes: This sacred grass is used in ceremony by Native Americans who braid and burn it slowly as a “smudge” stick to purify the body and soul. The glossy leaves have a pleasant vanilla fragrance. Rhizomes creep slowly to form a patch in moist soil.
- Wild Rye
- Elymus riparius
- Light: sun to part sun
- Height: 3-5'
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- Culture and Notes: Prefers moist soil but does fine in average soil. Late summer seed inflorescences provide food for birds. Will go dormant after seeding without proper moisture. Perfect for mixed meadow habitat or erosion control.
- Wool Grass
- Scirpus Cyperinus
- Light: sun to part shade
- Height: 3' bunching grass with 3-5'seed heads
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- Culture and Notes: Does well in moist to wet soils. Woolly inflorescences hanging from 5’ stalks turn a copper color in late summer and last into winter. Seems to appreciate having close companions to shade its roots.
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