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Palm Branch Sedge

Carex muskingumensis

• Position: full sun or partial shade
• Soil: moisture-retentive soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June to July
• Flower colour: golden-brown
• Other features: bright-green leaves
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  A beautiful ornamental grass with bright-green leaves and brown flower spikes in mid to late summer. A useful groundcover plant it also looks good planted in a sunny or semi-shade border with large-leaved perennials.
  
  
• Garden care: Cut brittle, dead foliage right down to the ground in late winter, well before new growth appears.
  
  
• Goes well with: Hosta fortunei 'Aureomarginata', Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood', Hemerocallis 'Corky', Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum', Geranium sylvaticum 'Mayflower', Eupatorium purpureum'Atropurpureum'.

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