Name: Red Fox Sedge, Leatherleaf Sedge
Brand: NVK Nurseries
SKU: 1969-1G
Price: 13.0 CAD
Availability: InStock

Carex buchananii

A compact cool-season sedge with distinctive coppery-brown foliage, silvery-white tips, and curling fall blades for low border use.

Small clump-forming marginally hardy sedge with a vertical habit; blade tips weep with age
Very narrow leaves are coppery-brown with silvery-white tips
Distinct curls appear in the fall

Size

1 gal

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Plant Characteristics

Sunlight

Full sun, Partial shade

Soil Moisture

Moist, Average, Well-drained

Drought Tolerant

✓

Hardiness Zone

6 – 6

Mature Height (meters)

0.5 – 0.6

Mature Spread (meters)

0.3 – 0.45

Growth Rate

Slow

Foliage Colour

Brown

Bloom Time

Summer

Habit

Upright

Deer Resistant

✓

Rabbit Resistant

✓

Landscape Uses

Border

Growing & Maintenance Tips

This sedge likes full sun to filtered shade in a moist, well-drained soil. It will contrast well with other grasses, especially those with blue foliage. Seldom needs dividing.