Carex plantaginea Blue Ridge Taccarum Harper's Beauty forms tight 5"

Harper's Beauty forms tight 5" tall tufts of narrow

each highlighted by contrasting subtle

axillary flowers in April (NC)

which it does in midsummer when the white spathe and spadix are held just below the foliage

This strange mutation of H

Carex plantaginea Blue Ridge Taccarum Harper's Beauty forms tight 5"Carex plantaginea 'Blue Ridge' is a 2015 selection of the North American native sedge (Canada south to Northern Alabama) from German gardener George Uebelhart of Jelitto Seed. George had told me about a strain of ribbon sedge that he was growing that didn't fall apart after flowering like the typical species, but it wasn't until I visited his garden and saw the plant in person that I was sold. Carex plantaginea 'Blue Ridge' forms a 10" tall x 18" wide