SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carex vulpinoidea
COMMON NAMES: Brown Fox Sedge, Fox Sedge
BLOOM TIME: June, July
PLANT PROFILE:
- 1-3 ½ ft. tall with narrow leaves 3’ x 5 mm wide.
- Leaves are rough on top & smooth on the bottom.
- Spikelets are 2-5 in. long x 15 mm across & appear bristly.
- Some think it resembles a fox’s tail when in bloom.
- Habitat: full or partial sun in wet conditions with soil of loam, clay or gravel.
- Found in banks, ditches, swamps, & woodlands.
- These are in all Illinois counties.
INSECT/ANIMAL INTERACTIONS:
- Provides food for sora (Soras are small, chubby, chickenlike birds with long toes) and yellow rails, swamp and tree sparrow, snipe and other songbirds