Any Sedge Experts Here?

I am assuming these are not regular grass if I remember, the flowering stems had edges. The flowers are a bit smaller than what the photos show, but I made them large enough to show detail.

#1. Just next to the gravel road, fairly dry area. Mostly sunny. The flowering stems 2 feet or less.
#2. Next to the drain pipe that goes under our driveway. I'd call it part shade. Three feet maximum. I have a picture of the entire clump if you think it will help. I want more of this stuff if it can grow in the middle of creeping charlie.
#3. In the yard, north side of house, but out a little ways... maybe part shade. Flowering stem, about two feet.

Thank you for any help in learning who these are.

I think the first and third pics are certainly sedges (Carex sp.), but not sure about the second one.

Yes - more pictures of each plant will help. It would help to group the photos of all of one plant at a time. You might even start a new thread for each one, if you want.

I will stick to this thread to save time. Number one will not have any noticeable leaves because I was weeding when I found it, all tall stuff was cut down except for this because it was clearly different from the normal grasses.

Here is the one other picture I have of number two. Looks like most other grass clumps I see.

While searching for something else, I ran into a website of the grasses, sedges and flowers of Kansas, a neighbor of mine. :D Beautifully put together site where I could scan the little thumbnails for anything that looks like what I have. So... if I have these figured out:
#1. Southern Sedge Carex austrina
#2. Common Wood Sedge Carex blanda
#3. Troublesome Sedge Carex molesta

What is funny is we planted ten Troublesome Sedges in our front yard last Saturday! It's nice to know it already grows here.

I have Carex grayi and it looks a lot like what you're showing.

This is Gray's Sedge...
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/gray_sedge.htm

I planted dormant bare roots of the Carex grayi last fall, but they didn't make it. I wanted it specifically for that really neat seedhead, so ruled that one out already.

Okie doke. Gran's Sedge is striking for that very reason.

Gray's Sedge, that is.

I think 1 and 3 are genus Carex about as far as I would go without them in my hand. maybe #2 is too.
I had not seen the first post so this is a duplicate.

This message was edited Jul 15, 2016 3:09 PM