Everillo Sedge
Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’ · a gold-leaf evergreen sedge
A bright chartreuse-gold sedge with fine, cascading leaves that lights up shady borders, woodland edges, pond margins and pots, and deer leave it alone. It slowly widens into a clump without spreading. Its colour is richest in part shade; keep the soil moist, especially in sun, as it can sulk in hot, humid summers.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 1.5 ft
- 0.5 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Moist
Everillo Sedge at its mature size
A mature Everillo Sedge grows 1.5 to 2 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Everillo Sedge looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Fountain of narrow arching solid lime-gold blades.
Growing Everillo Sedge
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Good for
- Groundcover, rain garden, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Everillo Sedge, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Everillo Sedge in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other sedges
Pennsylvania SedgeEverillo SedgeAll drawn to the same scale.