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Pennsylvania Sedge is a fine-textured, low-growing native perennial ground cover ideal for shade gardens and naturalized landscapes. Known for its arching green foliage and creeping rhizomatous habit, it creates a soft, soft-flowing carpet that works wonderfully as a low-maintenance, no-mow lawn alternative.

Key Features & Specifications

  • Mature Height: Up to 12 inches Tall and Wide
  • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 – 8
  • Growth Habit: Arching, fine-textured semi-evergreen foliage
  • Sunlight: Partial Shade to Full Shade (Tolerates full sun if soil remains consistently moist)
  • Soil Requirements: Adapts well to dry, well-drained, or sandy soils; performs exceptionally under mature trees
  • Water Needs: Low to moderate once established; drought-tolerant
  • Maintenance: Extremely low maintenance; requires no regular mowing (optional early spring trim)

Landscape Uses

  • Shady lawn substitute or groundcover (low foot traffic areas)
  • Underplanting beneath trees and shrubs
  • Erosion control on shaded slopes and banks
  • Native plant gardens and woodland borders

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Settlemyre Nursery

Pennsylvania Sedge Grass

Pennsylvania Sedge Grass

203289

65 in stock

$14.99
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Pennsylvania Sedge is a fine-textured, low-growing native perennial ground cover ideal for shade gardens and naturalized landscapes. Known for its arching green foliage and creeping rhizomatous habit, it creates a soft, soft-flowing carpet that works wonderfully as a low-maintenance, no-mow lawn alternative.

Key Features & Specifications

  • Mature Height: Up to 12 inches Tall and Wide
  • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 – 8
  • Growth Habit: Arching, fine-textured semi-evergreen foliage
  • Sunlight: Partial Shade to Full Shade (Tolerates full sun if soil remains consistently moist)
  • Soil Requirements: Adapts well to dry, well-drained, or sandy soils; performs exceptionally under mature trees
  • Water Needs: Low to moderate once established; drought-tolerant
  • Maintenance: Extremely low maintenance; requires no regular mowing (optional early spring trim)

Landscape Uses

  • Shady lawn substitute or groundcover (low foot traffic areas)
  • Underplanting beneath trees and shrubs
  • Erosion control on shaded slopes and banks
  • Native plant gardens and woodland borders

Read more...

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Specifications

Botanical name
  • Carex pensylvanica
Features
  • Low Maintenance
  • Evergreen
  • Shade Option
  • Deer Resistant
  • Low Light
Growing zone ?
  • 5 - 9
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Growing zone list
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
Light requirements
  • Part Shade
  • Full Shade
Mature height
  • 12 in
  • 13 in
  • 14 in
  • 15 in
  • 16 in
  • 17 in
  • 18 in
Mature width
  • 12 in
  • 13 in
  • 14 in
  • 15 in
  • 16 in
  • 17 in
  • 18 in
Type
  • Grass
Size
  • 1 gallon

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