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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appalachian sedge (Carex appalachica) looks good even into December. The native plant has 12-to-18-inch-long leaves that are an eighth-inch wide and turn from deep green in summer to chartreuse yellow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The outlook for the endangered plant, which is currently confined to two secret locations in Surrey and Somerset, has been described by experts as "critical" after it almost entirely disappeared from ...

Something wonderful happened yesterday. For half a century or more, I have been part of this planet's great ecosystem, breathing the oxygen exhaled by plants and trees of all kinds; yet never once had ...