Carex lutea LeBlond. Section: [26xx] Section 37 Ceratocystis. Common name: Golden Sedge. Phenology: May. Habitat: Wet pine savannas shallowly underlain by coquina limestone, with open canopy of Taxodium ascendens, Pinus palustris, and Liriodendron tulipifera, also more acid substrates in Panhandle FL, where in wet pineland ecotones between sandhills and small stream swamps. Distribution: Known from isolated locations in NC, SC, and FL. Originally thought to be endemic to Pender and Onslow counties, NC (where associated with other narrow endemics, such as Thalictrum cooleyi and Allium species 1, and other rare species, such as Plantago sparsiflora, Parnassia caroliniana, Rhynchospora thornei, and others), but discovered in 2021 in e. SC (Francis Marion NF) and Panhandle FL (by Lilly Anderson-Messec).

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: See LeBlond et al. (1994) for additional information about the discovery and naming of the species. See Poindexter et al. (2024) for additional information about its discovery in the Florida Panhandle and e. South Carolina.

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA23, K4, NS, POWO, Derieg et al (2013), LeBlond et al (1994), Poindexter et al (2024) in Weakley et al (2024a); = n/a — RAB. Basionym: Carex lutea LeBlond 1994

Links to other floras: = Carex lutea - FNA23

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Heliophily ⓘ: 9