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Where the garden meets the wild |
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GRASSES & ALLIES |
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| Carex buchananii in autumn. Photograph © Pat Woodward. | |
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Photograph © Pat Woodward |
Agropyron spicatum (Pursh) Rydb. Bluebunch wheatgrass. Sometimes called Pseudoroegneria spicata or Elymus spicatus. |
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| Carex
aquatilis
Wahlenb.
var. dives (Holm) Kükenth. Also called Carex
sitchensis.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| Carex buchananii Berggr. Buchanan's sedge. New Zealand copper sedge. In the garden no less than in dried arrangements, this sedge bestows dimension and color. It is short-lived but self-sows. | |
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| Carex kelloggii. | |
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Photographs © Pat Woodward |
Carex lenticularis
Michaux var.
limnophila (T. Holm) Cronquist. Lakeshore sedge, Shore
sedge. The species appears to be native, with variations, across the
Northern Hemisphere. This variety, often called Carex kelloggii, is
native to fresh-water shores in W North America from California to
Alaska. It is clump-forming, and with its narrow channeled leaves and
white flowers makes a handome screen at one end of our rock-garden pond.
Small birds like to hide there, waiting their turn to bathe.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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Photograph © Dorrie Woodward |
Carex macrocephala
Willd.
ex Spreng. var. macrocephala. Big-headed sedge. This
rhizomatous, salt-tolerant beauty with a big, spiky head is waiting for
someone to use it in a remarkable garden. It grows on ocean shores and
dunes from Oregon north to Alaska and south again through Japan and
China.
Bare-root rhizome (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| Carex mertensii
Prescott
ex. Bong. Mertens's sedge.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| Carex obnupta Bailey. Slough sedge. | |
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| Carex sitchensis. | |
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| Carex stipata Hudson. Prickly sedge. | |
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| Elymus spicatus. | |
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| Eriophorum chamissonis C.A. Mey. Chamisso's cottongrass. | |
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| Festuca idahoensis subsp. roemeri. | |
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| Festuca roemeri (Pavlick) E.B. Alexeev. Roemer's fescue, Idaho fescue. Sometimes now called Festuca idahoensis Elmer subsp. roemeri (Pavlick) S. Aiken. | |
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| Hierochloe hirta (Schrank) Borbás. Northern sweetgrass. Native to much of northern and central North America. | |
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| Hierochloe
occidentalis
Buckl. Sweetgrass. Received as
Hierochloe odorata, which however in current taxonomy is a name
reserved for plants native to NE North America. We offer plants from seeds
collected in the Pacific Northwest.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$6.00; elsewhere US$5.50. |
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| Hierochloe odorata. | |
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| Juncus acuminatus Michaux. Tapertip rush. Native to much of North America. | |
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| Juncus effusus L. Common rush, Soft rush. 灯心草 Deng xin cao (Chinese). This is a complex of closely related rushes native to marshes, wet meadows and other damp sites across the Northern Hemisphere. In Asia the pith has been used as a wick for lamps and candles. | |
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| Juncus ensifolius Wikstrom. Swordleaf rush. Native to most of W North America and to scattered sites in E North America. | |
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| Luzula nivea (L.)
DC. Snow rush, Snowy woodrush.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| Luzula parviflora
(Ehrhart) Desvaux. Small-flowered wood
rush. Native, with variations, to wet, tundra-like places across
temperate and subalpine North America and Eurasia.
Bare-root clump (fall shipping only). In Canada C$5.00; elsewhere US$4.50. |
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| Pseudoroegneria spicata. | |
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| If you like grasses, you'll probably like Xerophyllum tenax and Arthropodium, too. | |
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| This page was updated Oct. 7, 2006 | |