Fox Sedge Grass

Fox Sedge Grass (Carex vulpinoidea) is one of those rare plants that will grow as well in Florida as it does in New Hampshire, Arizona, Washington or even Arkansas! As a matter of fact, it is native to most of the contiguous United States. It even grows into southern Canada!

Do you know what that means? It means that we are positive that Fox Sedge will grow where you live! This super-hardy Sedge is a robust little perennial (often an evergreen in warmer winter climates) and a workhorse in the garden!

The foliage is a lovely spring-green. In June the little grass-like tufts are topped with 5" bronzy inflorescences that darken to a deep-brown and resembles a Fox's tail jumping through a meadow.

Fine-textured, green slim grass blades create a rounded fountain-like clump in the garden. Accented with the short-lived, bronze seed heads, Fox Sedge is most well known for its wet soil tolerance and wetland habit restoration use!

From early spring until autumn's frost, you'll enjoy steady blades of color swaying in the breeze! Summer brings bronzy, spiky seed-heads for added interest and motion in the wind. Easy-care perennials, Carex are low growing focal points and low maintenance interest for a wide variety of landscape applications.

How to Use Fox Sedge Grass In The Landscape

You won't find a better plant to help out in disturbed garden areas. Fox Sedge is often used in Wetland Restoration and Erosion Control.

They excel in drainage ditches and mitigation sites, bringing grace and texture and easy-care color to waste areas. Excellent soil stabilizers on shorelines, meadows and wildlife gardens. They are also highly deer resistant!

After disaster disturbance, Fox Sedge is often the first colonizer plant. That shows you how tough this little plant is!

Fox Sedge will lend great texture and movement to your landscape. It performs well in wet garden conditions like pond edges, drainage areas, garden low spots, or by the HVAC condensation drip. Plant a few in your rain garden or around a rock feature at the end of your gutters.

Naturally colonizing an area, Fox Sedge looks right at home planted en masse or in swaths along waterfront areas. The easy-care and low maintenance of Fox Sedge mean both commercial and residential areas make it feel right at home!

Once you try it you will agree that it is such a great and adaptable plant. You are sure to have a spot that will benefit from this hardy little garden gem!

#ProPlantTips For Care

Fox Sedge Grass does best in full sun but will tolerate part shade, a rarity among ornamental grasses. Cold hardy in growing zones 3 through zone 8, these native plants spring up naturally throughout most of the USA, ensuring they'll surely survive even the toughest garden!

Happily thriving in moist and wet areas, any soggy spot in the garden will benefit from these moisture-loving beauties! Though once established, Fox Sedge will do amazing in even average garden soil conditions too!

Cut all foliage down to the ground each year in late winter or early spring before it starts to grow. This removes old growth that can choke out the crown and harbor fungal diseases.

Fill those tough areas in the landscape with an easy-breezy, hardy native! Don't wait! Order your Fox Sedge Grass from Nature Hills Nursery today!