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[SHADEGARDENS] Unidentified Native Plant

Friends,

This is my first posting to shadegardens.  I'm delighted to be here.

I am asking if anyone in this cybergardening group can help me identify a
native plant I am growing in my garden that is relatively common in
Central New York.

The plant is evergreen.  It has many strap-like green leaves about 3/4"
wide and 8" to 12" long.  Each leaf has three parallel veins.  The plant
grows in open shaded woodland either on a limestone terrain (alkaline) or
shale terrain (acid).  If forms a circular mound 12" to 16" in diameter with
the leaves emanating from the center and drooping to the ground.  I
haven't figured out whether it blooms in the spring, but it's getting either
blooms or new leaf buds in the middle under the snow now in January.  I
first noticed it in July and it doesn't bloom from July onward.

Could this be a native sedge?  It tends to be found with Hepatica (liver
leaf), and Actacea (doll's eyes) under deciduous trees.

Whatever it is, I really like it as a foliage plant and if it blooms,
I'll love it!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.

Cheers,
Steve Chamberlain
Manlius, NY
Zone 5-
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