Also called Shortbeak Sedge, Plains Oval Sedge actively grows during the spring and fall when soil temperatures are cool, like most sedges (cool-season growers). This sedge is drought tolerant and can tolerate controlled burns.

Attractive oval-shaped golden-brown spikes appear on 10-inch stems. Short and compact sedge that is drought tolerant.

This hardy sedge thrives in nearly all environments. From full sun to deep shade, and soils ranging from medium-moist to very dry conditions. Carex molesta prospers in environments ranging from open woodlands to swamps and dry-mesic prairies.

Copper Shouldered Oval Sedge, Carex bicknellii, is a prairie sedge found in both upland and river bottom prairies. It tolerates a range soils and does well in full sun or light shade.

Carex leporina is a species of sedge known in the British Isles as oval sedge [1] and in North America as eggbract sedge. It is native to Eurasia and eastern and western North America, where it grows in seasonally wet habitat, such as meadows and fields.

The perennial sedge Carex bebbii, Bebb's Oval Sedge or simply Bebb's Sedge, perfers full sun exposure and medium-wet soil. It is commonly found in marsh and wetland areas, river and lake edges.

Mar 26, 2025 · Plains Oval Sedge is a native inhabitant of dry, sandy soils concentrated primarily in the southern two-thirds of the state. It is extremely adaptable to clay, drought, periodic flooding, and alkaline soils, making it an all-purpose option for full sun to part shade areas.

They are notoriously difficult to identify to species, especially the oval sedges to which Bicknell’s sedge belongs. The development of stock seed by the Tallgrass Prairie Center in the early 2000s enabled broader access to reliably identified sedge species by native seed growers.

Description: This perennial sedge consists of a small tuft of both sterile leafy shoots and fertile leafy culms. The fertile culms are 2½–3¼' long, light green, bluntly 3-angled, hairless, and unbranched; they often lean to one side.

Carex brevior, known as shortbeak sedge [3] and plains oval sedge, [4] [5] is a species of sedge native to North America. [6] The specific epithet brevior means "shorter" in Latin. [5]