Carex Testacea
The orange sedge is well named.
Carex testacea. One of the cold hardier new zealand hairy sedges carex testacea forms a low cascading mound of narrow arching olive green leaves turning coppery brown in summer. Extraordinarily eye catching carex testacea prairie fire is also one of the cold hardier new zealand hairy sedges. It forms a low cascading mound of narrow. One of the hardiest of the new zealand hair sedges this species forms pleasing mounds of narrow bronzy orange leaves.
The soft wig like texture and unusual colour. Find help information on carex testacea orange new zealand sedge from the rhs. This popular nz native perennial grass forms a densely tufted clump of arching weeping foliage that has a distinctive green and orange colouring. An attractive grass with rich green and brick orange foliage.
Best colour in full sun. Handsome at all times of the year. Hardy to drought coastal. Latin name for a species of sedge now applied to the whole group.
With a hard bony.