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Height: to 3 ft

plant sale text: This sedge is very widespread, found in virtually every part of the country. When planted where happy it will colonize an area, forming lovely clumps of light green foliage and, as the common name suggests, foxy spikes of flowers up to 4 inches long in early summer. This plant plays host to a number of grass skipper caterpillars as well as food source to ducks, geese, rails and sparrows. In the wild this plant is found in openings in floodplain woodlands, swamps, sedge meadows (where else?), streambanks, and (of course) ditches. May be seen in the company of boneset, joe pye, ox-eye daisies, ironweed, rushes, and golden alexander.

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native range: North America