Sun: Full, partial, shade
Moisture: Medium to wet
Height: 3'
Genotype: Winona, MN (shares a Level II ecosystem, Mixed Woods Plains, with Southeastern Michigan).
 
This attractive, clump-forming sedge produces light-green spiky seedballs that provide visual interest. Tolerates containers. A good candidate for rain gardens. Sedges (and grasses) were the preferred food of the mammoths that once lived in Michigan.