Carex praegracilis - Clustered field sedge

Clustered field sedge (Carex praegracilis) is a rhizomatous, mat-forming perennial sedge of wet meadows, marshes, and seasonally flooded ground across western North America, handling standing water and grazed as livestock forage.¹ It grows 0.1-0.5 m tall and 0.1-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Wet soil¹

Outputs

• Livestock forage¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial

Functions

• Ground cover¹
• Flammable²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.1-0.5
Diameter (m)	0.1-1

Footnotes

1. Carex praegracilis, Clustered Field Sedge | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩