Carex brevior Osage Violet Flowering Plants resemble a giant red Sarracenia

resemble a giant red Sarracenia rubra

(aka: Disporum cantoniense 'Night Heron' DJHC739) Disporum longistylum 'Night Heron' is a 2002 Dan Hinkley/Heronswood introduction selected from a 1996 seed collection in Sichuan

each topped with large spikes of light peach-colored flowers from late summer until frost

Of several seedlings from different locations on our month-long trek

Carex brevior Osage Violet Flowering Plants resemble a giant red SarraceniaCarex 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