Carex pensylvanica (Common Oak Sedge or Pennsylvania sedge) Size:38 Plug Flat Part-Shade

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Given time this plant can create dense colonies making a great flowering medium height groundcover

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nieuwlandii (Savanna Blazing Star) is the plant

Carex pensylvanica (Common Oak Sedge or Pennsylvania sedge) Size:38 Plug Flat Part-ShadeDo you know how important Carex pensylvanica is to our woodlands? Carex pensylvanica (Oak Sedge or Pennsylvania sedge) is quite possibly the second keystone species next to oaks in the oak woodlands. Carex pensylvanica deposit mass amounts of organic material in the savanna and woodland ecosystem soils, this spongy organic material hold mass amounts of moisture, water has the highest specific heat of any liquid so it keeps those ground temps very even