Carex grayi seeds grow into Gray's sedge or the mace sedge — a rhizomatous perennial sedge native to the temperate biome of eastern North America, from Massachusetts and Michigan south to North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri. Described by Carey (John Carey, 1797–1880, British-American botanist who collaborated with Asa Gray). Named after Asa Gray (1810–1888), the great American botanist and Harvard professor who was the most important botanist of 19th-century North America and a close friend of Charles Darwin. Produces distinctive, large, spiky, globe-shaped fruiting heads (to 4 cm diameter) with inflated perigynia tipped with long beaks, resembling a medieval mace — making it one of the most ornamentally distinctive temperate sedges. Family Cyperaceae.Partial shade to full sun; moist to wet soils; cool temperate conditions; excellent for pond margins and rain gardens. Named after Asa Gray (1810–1888, foremost 19th-century American botanist, Harvard professor, Darwin's friend) Spiky globe-shaped fruiting heads to 4 cm — unique ornamental character; mace sedge; Carey description Eastern North America — temperate biome; moist woodland, pond margins and stream banks Genus Carex ~2,000 species — one of the world's largest genera; Family Cyperaceae Partial shade to full sun; moist wet soils; cool temperate; pond margins; Family Cyperaceae Carex grayi is the mace sedge — named after Asa Gray, America's greatest 19th-century botanist and Darwin's champion, its dramatic spiky globe-shaped fruiting heads making it one of the most immediately recognisable and ornamentally striking sedges of the eastern North American temperate flora. IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
