Carex flaccosperma Reference while the epithet ludoviciana means

while the epithet ludoviciana means simply of Louisiana

From late spring into early summer

humid Southeast

Several Native peoples valued the northern maidenhair

Carex flaccosperma Reference while the epithet ludoviciana meansCarex flaccosperma, the blue wood sedge, is a clump forming native of the Southeastern woodlands grown for cool, glaucous, blue to blue green foliage. The blades are wide for a sedge, to half an inch, faintly quilted along the veins, and they catch the light with a soft powdery sheen that lifts a shaded planting where most greens recede. An easy, well mannered groundcover for shade, the blue wood sedge knits into low colonies along a shaded path,