Kimm, up until the last two years - I would have agreed with you on the areas that nutsedge frequents. Here in the middle of the US it has become the biggest problem that we face daily. I have a very lush, green thick back yard and just this year it is becoming infested with nutsedge. Garden ditto, all neighbors - ditto. Every property we maintain has the problem to some degree now. Most gardens and landscapes unless thoroughly mulched 2-4" thick - ditto. Downtown Ditto. Farmers fields - some but not to the degree we are seeing in the city and semi rural areas. I don't like spraying chemicals, but only have two that knock it down for the season, and even then it seems to return the next year with a vengeance. I have noticed that in the last two years, the "nuts or tubers" as some cal them, are 5-10 times more plentiful than when we first started treating this pest 6 or 7 years ago. I'm at a loss. TiMo

Thanks gardengal48. I just went out to the yard again and didn't feel any edges but the plant is so thin it might be hard to feel them if it was there. I found a couple other spots the animals didn't get to yet and took a picture to give a better idea of the plants general form. I couldn't get the plant by itself so please excuse all the "clutter" there.

A variegated Ophiopogon (Lilyturf) by the flowers. Sorry--I mean Liriope muscari âÂÂVariegataâ (close relative, also common name lilyturf) A tough, easy plant. Spreads; you can split and replant if you want more. This post was edited by hoovb on Sat, Sep 20, 14 at 17:43

achnatherum, Thanks for following up and asking for more details. Sorry to have been offline and not respond sooner. I was hoping to plant these grasses -- and potentially even the more tender ones (that is, before I read this thread) -- in outdoor planters that would be too large to move into the basement or any place else (and we don't have a garage). But I'd only do this if I were convinced they'd survive. Larger containers would be better insulated than small pots, but they'd still be above-ground, of course, and therefore relatively cold. In our little brownstone Brooklyn micro-climate, we do get to freezing, and even lower (in the 20s and teens) a handful of times each winter, but overall the winters aren't too bad. I could buy the on-sale plants now, leave them outside in their current pots until first frost, and then put them in the basement. But a) there's NO light down there, and b) once I planted them in the spring, I'd want them to then last outdoors, above ground, for the duration. What do you think? That being said, at $3 each, if they only lasted one growing season and didn't survive the next winter, it wouldn't be the end of the world. Still cheaper than a lot of annuals! Thoughts? Thanks! Fred