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| Material Type: | Chapter |
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| Author(s): | Greenlee, John |
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| Title: | Sedge lawns for every landscape |
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| Section: | "Chapter 4"
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| Volume Editors: | Daniels, Stevie |
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| Monographic Source: | Easy Lawns : Low Maintenance Native Grasses for Gardeners Everywhere, 1999, p. 31-35. |
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| Publishing Information: | Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Botanic Garden |
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| # of Pages: | 5 |
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| Series: | 21st-Century Gardening Series
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Publications; Handbook 160 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Lawn turf; Carex texensis; Carex perdentata; Carex pensylvanica; Carex pansa; Carex senta
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Sedges are close botanical cousins of the grasses and look a lot like them. Properly selected and planted, sedges can function as a traditional lawn, yet they require little or no mowing, fertilizing or chemicals...What's more, sedge lawns restore something of the character of the native sods that existed before agriculture and development transformed the American landscape..Part of the attraction of the genus Carex, into which sedges fall, is its tremendous variety and adaptability...Five sedges that have shown excellent promise as substitues for traditional lawngrasses are Catlin sedge (Carex tesensis), Texas Hill Country sedge (C. perdentata), Baltimore sedge (C. senta), Pennsylvania sedge (C. pensylvanica), and California meadow sedge (C. pansa)." |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Lawns |
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| ISBN: | 1-889538-12-4 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | For more information about the book this record is from, or to see other records from this work: R=116082 |
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| Note: | Includes "Pennsylvania Sedge - Carex pensylvanica" chart, pg. 33
Includes sidebar, "Planting sedge lawns", pg. 34
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Greenlee, J. 1999. Sedge lawns for every landscape. In Daniels, Stevie (ed.) Easy Lawns : Low Maintenance Native Grasses for Gardeners Everywhere. Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Botanic Garden. |
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