SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carex meadii
COMMON NAMES: Mead's Sedge, Mead's Stiff Sedge
BLOOM TIME: Mar, Apr, May, June
PLANT PROFILE:
- About 1 ft. tall.
- 6 in. x ¼ in, alternating leaves gray green or bluish green leaves with a yellow flowering stalk about 1 ½ in.
- Prefers full to partial sun and clay or rocky soil
- Habitat: blacksoil praries, savannas, limestone glades & adapts well to shade of taller plants.
- Uses rhizomes for spreading.
- Named for Samuel Barnum Mead, (1798-1880), a U.S. botanist & physician.
INSECT/ANIMAL INTERACTIONS:
- The seeds are eaten by various upland gamebirds and songbirds.
- This includes such species as the Wild Turkey, Greater Prairie Chicken, Ring-necked Pheasant, Mourning Dove, Horned Lark, and Savannah Sparrow.