| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex albicans var. albicans | White-tinged Sedge, Architectural Sedge | Dry woodlands, forests, and clearings. | Maine west to Illinois, and Oklahoma, south to Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, n. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988), Tennessee, and Missouri. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex albicans var. australis | Southern White-tinged Sedge, Bellow's-beak Sedge | Dry woodlands. | Maryland south to ne. Florida and Florida Panhandle, west to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex austrodeflexa | Canebrake Sedge | Canebrakes and acid swamps, very wet loamy pine savannas. | Coastal Plain, from se. Virginia to Panhandle Florida, west to s. Alabama; apparently disjunct in w. Louisiana. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex austrolucorum | Appalachian Woodland Sedge | Xeric to mesic wooded slopes, usually in oak forests and northern hardwood forests. | Sw. Virginia, s. West Virginia, e. Kentucky south to nw. South Carolina, n. Georgia and ne. Alabama. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex communis | Fibrous-rooted Sedge | Dry woodlands and forests, bluffs, rich forests, streambanks. | Prince Edward Island west to Minnesota, south to n. South Carolina, c. Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988), and Arkansas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex deflexa | Rocky, exposed soils and outcrops. | Greenland west to Alaska, south to Massachusetts, n. New York, n. Michigan, and n. Minnesota. A disjunct population in West Virginia that has been referred to C. deflexa is actually Carex species 8. |  (c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex emmonsii | Emmons’s Sedge | Longleaf pine sandhills, maritime forests, wet pine flatwoods, mesic or dry upland forests, sandy woodlands. | Nova Scotia west to Ontario and Wisconsin, south to South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex floridana | Florida Sedge | Mesic hammocks, dry hammocks, maritime forests. | S. New Jersey south to c. peninsular Florida, west to Texas. See McAvoy (2021) for discussion of the occurrence of this species in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Cyperaceae | Carex inops ssp. heliophila | Plains Sedge | Dry to mesic upland forests, sandy, loamy, or loess prairies. | Ontario west to British Columbia, south to Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Washington. |  (c) Lavin, Matt - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex lucorum | Northern Woodland Sedge | Moist forests. | New Brunswick west to Minnesota, south to Maryland (Cecil County; C. Frye, pers. comm. based on specimen at DOV), Delaware (Knapp et al. 2011), and Pennsylvania. |  (c) Wiegersma, Quinten - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex nigromarginata | Black-edged Sedge | Dry woodlands and forests. | Delaware and New Jersey west to Wisconsin, south to South Carolina, Georgia, and possibly Texas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex novae-angliae | New England Sedge | Moist forests. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) and Ontario, south to e. Pennsylvania, n. West Virginia, and Wisconsin. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Cyperaceae | Carex peckii | Peck's Sedge | Mesic to dry calcareous rocky slopes and open forests, alvars. | Boreal North America, reaching furthest south to n. New Jersey, New York, n. Ohio, s. Michigan, s. Wisconsin, e. Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, and British Columbia. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Cyperaceae | Carex pensylvanica | Pennsylvania Sedge | Dry to moist woodlands and forests, grassy balds, shale barrens, rock outcrops. | Maine west to s, Manitoba and North Dakota, south to Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Cyperaceae | Carex reznicekii | Reznicek’s Sedge | Dry to mesic forests and woodlands. | Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Missouri, south to South Carolina, sw. Georgia, se. Alabama, Panhandle Florida, n. Mississippi and Arkansas. To be expected in West Virginia. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex rugosperma | Parachute Sedge | Old fields, shallow soils of rock outcrops, exposed forest margins. | Prince Edward Island west to Minnesota, south to Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Reported for South Carolina by Hill & Horn (1997). |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 3 | Fen Sedge | Ultramafic fens. | Endemic (so far as is known) to the Glades, Alleghany County, North Carolina and Grayson County, Virginia. | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 4 | Thin soils over acidic gneiss. | Endemic (so far as is known) to Alleghany County, North Carolina. | ||
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 5 | In seepage in thin soils over granite and granitic gneiss. | Buncombe County North Carolina south to Greenville County, South Carolina and Rabun County, Georgia. | ||
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 6 | Balsam Sedge | Spruce-fir forests, northern hardwoods forests, and grassy balds. | W. North Carolina and e. Tennessee. | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 7 | Moderate to high elevation oak, acid coves, and other hardwood forests. | Southern Appalachians and nearby, lower elevation provinces, the distribution still poorly known, probably Virginia and Kentucky south to South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. | ||
| Cyperaceae | Carex species 8 | Northern hardwood forests. | South to Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia. | ||
| Cyperaceae | Carex tonsa | Shaved Sedge | Dry rock outcrops, xeric disturbed areas, old fields. | Québec west to Alberta, south to Virginia, West Virginia (Vanderhorst et al. 2013), nw. South Carolina, n. Georgia, e. Tennessee, Indiana, and Wisconsin. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex umbellata | Parasol Sedge | Limestone barrens, other barrens and glades, old fields, mowed areas, other open habitats. | Greenland west to Alberta, south to Georgia and Texas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |