These low-maintenance native plants boost biodiversity and are pretty on the eye. Sedges are grass-like plants belonging to the genus Carex—and there are so many reasons they make a great ...

Brighten shade gardens and porch containers with the luminous variegation and fine texture of this evergreen sedge.

Name this plant: This abundant sedge can be tricky to identify There are nearly 3,000 different species of Carex, and to some botanists, they represent one of the more difficult groups for ...

These shade-tolerant plants not only provide an alternative to a traditional ... The sedges I’m recommending are Carex sedges. With over 600 species native to North America, including around 70 in ...

Botanically, the sedge family is huge, containing some 5,000 known species. The largest genus within this family is Carex which includes over 2,000 species. They are found world-wide, and although ...

Here are some grasses that handle wet winters and dry summers with relative ease, while adding year-round interest and texture.

Delaware’s Mount Cuba Center is just out with results of its latest plant trial – this time exploring 70 different species and varieties of sedges (Carex) over four years of evaluation.

Sedge grass looks like, well, grass. Yet, when it appears in a real grass lawn, sedge can stick out like a black thumb. Here's why it grew and how to stop it.

Our Mystery sedge (Thicket sedge, Carex abscondita) is a species placed in the genus Carex, as it turns out, and which is by far the largest genus in the family, if you go by species number.

Our Mystery sedge is a species placed in the genus Carex, as it turns out, and which is by far the largest genus in the family, if you go by species number.. There are nearly 3,000 different ...

Ice Dance Carex is a showy plant with deep green leaves edged in bright white. This is a shorter sedge with a height of only a foot and a spread of one to two feet.

This particular species of Carex is common in the Southeast, showing off its rather pronounced yellow-green foliage. Contributed photo/John Nelson ...