These low-maintenance native plants boost biodiversity and are pretty on the eye. Sedges are grass-like plants belonging to the genus Carex—and there are so many reasons they make a great addition to ...

It’s not a grass, and it’s not a sage. It’s a “sedge”. This week’s column is devoted to a certain plant family, and especially a certain genus within the family. This would be the family named ...

Sedges are grasslike plants best described as green and tufty. They may be the dullest-looking perennials in the landscape. They are also the hottest. Leading garden designers and horticulturists have ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected 202 acres of critical habitat in Onslow and Pender counties, N.C., today for the endangered golden sedge (Carex lutea). This final habitat ...

Conservationists in Somerset are attempting to save one of the UK's rarest plants from the brink of extinction. The starved wood-sedge (also known as Carex depauperate) is only found in two sites ...

A plant species thought to be lost for nearly 100 years has flowered with nearly 2,000 feathery spikes at a nature reserve near York. Ecologists said they were astounded in April to come across a ...

It’s not a grass, and it’s not a sage. It’s a “sedge.” This week’s column is devoted to a certain plant family, and especially a certain genus within the family. This would be the family named ...

A group of volunteers is targeting an invasive hanging sedge plant that has spread along a Mill Valley creek and in other parts of the county. Tamalpais High School student Craig Marquis, 17, ...

Pollinators like birds, butterflies, and bees are responsible for the development of about 35% of crops all over the world. And an impressive three-fourths of all flowering plants depend on these ...

To find rare plants, Linda Curtis said she goes where no one else wants to go. And she loves it — even if she has to get down on her hands and knees in the muck or lean over a boardwalk hoping not to ...

Many homeowners bringing in plant samples for identification are often surprised to find out that one very green vigorous plant is in fact a weed. This weedy plant is a sedge and it becomes so ...