Carex brevior Osage Echinacea Most folks wouldn't recognize it

Most folks wouldn't recognize it as a butterfly bush

seed-grown plants

requiring no additional care after planting

000' elevation in Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains

Carex brevior Osage Echinacea Most folks wouldn't recognize itCarex brevior is a widespread, but rarely grown sedge, native to all but three of the lower 48 states, where it most likely resides, but hasn't been documented. In the garden, it forms a beautiful 1' tall x 3' wide, deciduous, waterfall shaped clump. The narrow 3' tall spikes, top the clump, starting for us in early July. Our offering is from a 2022 Patrick McMillan collection in Osage County, Oklahoma. In the wild, it grows on dry rock roadsides as