Evergreen perennial sedge, herb/ground layer Likes some shade and water. Foothill sedge this one of our few upland prairie sedges.
Foothill sedge (Carex tumulicola) Foothill sedge (Carex
Carex tumulicola is an evergreen sedge with a bunching habit.
Plant database entry for foothill sedge (carex tumulicola) with 8 data details.
It is a very versatile plant for use in coastal full sun to fairly deep shade. Looks particularly good cascading over a rock wall. A tightly clumping sedge with medium green foliage and 8″ wiry stems with attending flowers that are tan in spring/summer. Foothill sedge has a wide distribution in california and north to washington.
This is not the berkeley sedge!
A tough and adaptable tufted evergreen growing 12 inches (or more) tall and. Skip to content 101 golf course dr, tilden regional park, berkeley, ca 94708 Responds to water but is able to tolerate periods of dryness. Browse pictures and read growth / cultivation information about foothill sedge, splitawn sedge (carex tumulicola) supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave's garden.
Useful as an informal groundcover under shrubs or trees, for a meadow planting or for soil stabilization.
It grows as a clumping mound to about 12 inches and will slowly spread via underground rhizomes. Foothill sedge is found along the coast and in coastal mountains from the channel islands into oregon and washington. During the spring, tiny stalks of brown flowers emerge adding delicate interest to this compact mounding plant. Foothill sedge is commonly found from the central willamette valley south into california.
A member of the cyperaceae family, foothill sedge (carex tumulicola) is known as the splitawn sedge, slender sedge, or previously berkeley sedge.
This perennial species is known from 10 localized and highly fragmented sites in south western british columbia where it occurs in meadows and shrub thickets within garry oak ecosystems, a critically imperilled habitat in canada. Its dense green tufts grow up to 2 feet tall and spread slowly by rhizomes during its lifetime. In spring, it bears inconspicuous, brown flowers atop triangular flowering stems. Unlike many other members of this genus, however, foothill sedge is not a.
In our region this plant can be found in upland situations where it is moist for at least half the year.
It forms large clumps and has delicate nodding flower heads. Carex tumulicola, the splitawn sedge foothill sedge, or previously berkeley sedge, is a sedge member of the family cyperaceae. Foothill sedge, slender sedge, split awn sedge carex tumulicola, a monocot, is a perennial grasslike herb that is native to california, and also found elsewhere in western north america. Plant in full coastal sun or bright shade to part sun.
With more than 1500 species of carex growing in moist to wet areas around the world, it can make it challenging to identify individual species.
Stems are long and sharply triangular, similar to other sedges. About carex tumulicola (foothill sedge) this clumping sedge is known as carex tumulicola or, more commonly as, foothill sedge. Distribution the range of foothill sedge extends fromsouthwest british columbia south to oregon and california. It tolerates boggy wet soils but is also fairly drought tolerant once established.
It lends a soft, flowing look to the garden.
