{"product_id":"green-sheath-sedge-1","title":"Green Sheath Sedge Seeds (Carex feta)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eSedges can be enigmatic and inscrutable for many of us. There's such an expansive diversity of species that it can be a bit confounding not only to identify which one is which, but also to develop of sense of which one grows where, and why. Or, what makes one more or less desirable in a certain location. And, how specific sedges interact with the other plants and animals that they live among.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eSo with green sheath sedge, here are some of the basics most relevant to the native plant gardener or habitat manager:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis is a legitimate wet feet sedge (not like Chamisso sedge that can stand a bit of dry ground). Green sheath sedge enjoys both surface and sub-surface moisture. If your feet sort of sink into wet soil, green sheath sedge is going to be happy where you stand. It tends to hang out with the rushes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis sedge also seems to enjoy cooler temperatures and cooler water – but not extremes of cold. It shows up at both mid and low elevations, around the shores of cool water lakes and spring-fed marshes. Water quality may also be factor for this plant, it’s not something we tend to see in polluted wetlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eGreen sheath sedge is green-green-green! A bright, true green. It’s quite beautiful. The seed heads arise on 2-foot tall-ish stems that roughly resemble common orchard grass at a great distance (with the seeds arranged in semi-alternating clusters in the stem), but if you know the green intensity of this sedge, you can start to discern it even at a distance. (And the more familiar with it you become, the more you see it out and about in the world).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis plant forms loose, sparse tussocks (it is clumping but not densely so), but it can form large colonies, collectively becoming a dense planting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eGreen sheath sedge also has a tendency towards lodging – flopping over with stems becoming bent and drooping back into the soggy ground below (probably a good way to reseed itself). This growth form is sometimes off-putting to pedants who want to see every graminoid robustly upright in posture. And yet, animals see things quite differently: a flopped over sedge mass is where you make your nest if you are a redwing blackbird. It’s the cover you seek when you are a muskrat or meadow vole which is why marshes have beautiful harrier marsh hawks. Lodged sedges provide breeding cover for frog eggs, and concealment for garter snakes which use aquatic habitats extensively for both foraging and hibernating (yes, they often hibernate in and around water). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis sedge is also a likely caterpillar host for various butterflies, including likely the Umber skipper (\u003cem\u003ePoanes melane\u003c\/em\u003e), Macoun's arctic (\u003cem\u003eOeneis macounii\u003c\/em\u003e), and the Melissa Arctic (\u003cem\u003eOeneis melissa\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eSo there’s a lot going on with this particular sedge. Its range is mostly limited to the West Coast (from British Columbia to central California), and mostly west of the Cascades and the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eIt’s a great plant for doing all the things you might want a sedge to do – making wild networks of fine root systems that stitch themselves together into a wonderful fibrous soil network – occupying lots of ground to reduce invasion by noxious things such as reed canary grass, etc. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eAnd yet, you might also just enjoy this plant for its vibrant green that broadcasts life to everything that encounters it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eUse it in rain gardens, bioswales, marsh restoration, and for guerilla gardening those mandatory, rectangular, chain link-fence surrounded eyesore stormwater detention ponds that get installed behind big box stores and next to nursing homes. It’s like a supercharger for wetland wildlife. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Futura Medium',sans-serif;\"\u003eApproximately 800 seeds (1.0 grams)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwest Meadowscapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50442503782646,"sku":null,"price":7.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1274\/1723\/files\/green-sheath-sedge-seeds-carex-feta-8654147.jpg?v=1776994993","url":"https:\/\/northwestmeadowscapes.com\/products\/green-sheath-sedge-1","provider":"Northwest Meadowscapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}