Common Name
Howe's sedge
Plant Form
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
Duration
Perennial
Max Height (ft)
2.0
Region
Coastal
Piedmont
Mountain
Additional Info
Bogs, boggy clearings, seeps, and seepage swamps; rarely on sphagnous hummocks of acidic alluvial swamps along headwater streams; often grows in Sphagnum. Frequent in the s. and c. coastal Plain; infrequent to rare elsewhere.
Bloom Time
Spring
Early Summer
Light Requirements
Full sun
Partial sun
Shade
Moisture Requirements
Wet
Moist
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