Carex vulpinoidea, known as Fox Sedge or Brown Fox Sedge, is a perennial plant native to Michigan and the U.P. It is a wet sedge, at home around ponds, inland lakes, wetlands, and rain gardens, but it also lives in meadows and forest edges and is drought tolerant when established. Reaching 1 to 3 feet in height, this sedge makes an excellent matrix plant filling in between taller focal points. Full sun to part shade.
 
This is a graceful, mounding sedge with early flowers and sprays of gold seed heads resembling fox tails. Provides a food source for the larvae of several types of skipper butterflies and moths, among other insects, as well as some birds, including waterfowl. In large colonies, this plant offers nest sites for the Sedge Wren and cover for other birds and mammals.