Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City, USA

Common name: Texas Sedge

Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge family)

Distribution: North America

Life form: Perennial plant

Comments: Sedges are an ideal choice for wet areas of you garden, but some species can also be widely adapted to moist or dry conditions. The texas sedge will quickly establish as a thick ground cover when planted in the full sun. Its coarse texture and crowded rhizomes even keep out most weeds. It will typically die back to the ground in the late winter. After which, a short sheering will let the new spring growth grow back quickly.