Sun: Full
Moisture: Medium-wet to wet
Height: 3'
Genotype: Winona, MN (shares a Level II ecosystem, Mixed Woods Plains, with Southeastern Michigan).
Indigenous interactions: (Moerman, 1998).
 
This lush wetland sedge produces attractive light-green seedheads resembling a squat, spiky bottlebrush. Host plant for several butterflies. Tolerates temporary flooding. Good choice for a rain garden. Sedges (and grasses) were the onetime preferred food for Michigan mammoths.