New Zealand Hair Sedge Carex albula

Curly Sedge is a sedge native to the riverbanks of the South Island of New Zealand.  It grows at a moderate rate to form one foot tall dense fountain-like clumps with narrow light green to buff cream leaves that provide year-round interest.  Plant it where it will receive adequate weekly moisture and full sun to partial shade.  This low growing plant is an evergreen commonly used in gardens beds to emphasize other plants with more dramatic foliage color or flowers. Planted in mass along a slope it can give the texture of moving water.  It acts as a groundcover and can be applied in woodland gardens, along pool hardscapes or planted in grids in more modern gardens.  It also looks at home planted along a pond bank, as an edging plant, or in rock gardens or containers.  It reseeds itself easily and is drought, deer and wet sites tolerant.  If you plant it in a wet area make sure the crown of the plant is above water as it does not withstand submersion.