| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex biltmoreana | Biltmore Sedge | In thin soils on medium to high elevation granitic domes and other sloping rock outcrops, often dominant in thin-soil herbaceous mats wet by seasonal and post-rainfall seepage, and also occurring in adjacent woodlands under open to nearly closed canopy of Quercus spp., Fraxinus americana, Carya glabra, and Juniperus virginiana. | Endemic to sw. North Carolina, nw. South Carolina, and ne. Georgia (Rabun and Towns counties) |  (c) Carson, Owen - CC-BY-NC |
| Cyperaceae | Carex chapmanii | Chapman's Sedge | Edges of calcareous pine savannas, calcareous slopes and bottomlands, mesic hammocks, stream terraces. | Se. North Carolina south to c. peninsular Florida, endemic to the Coastal Plain; initially listed as disjunct in nc. Tennessee (Chester et al. 1993), but rejected thereafter (Tennessee Flora Committee 2015). The reported n. Georgia specimens (Union, Franklin, and Fannin counties) are also misidentifications. |  (c) Paz, Alex de la |
| Cyperaceae | Carex livida | Bogs and fens. | Circumboreal, south in North America to s. New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado, and California; also disjunct in Panama and South America. |  (c) Marcum, Paul | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex meadii | Mead's Sedge | Mesic to wet prairies, loess prairies, limestone barrens and glades, open woodlands and savannas over calcareous substrates, on low, moist clayey or loamy soils over mafic or ultramafic rocks (such as diabase or serpentine) or calcareous rocks. | S. New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Saskatchewan, south to nc. South Carolina, nw. Georgia, sw. Louisiana, se. Texas, and Chihuahua. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex polymorpha | Variable Sedge | Dry, acidic ridgetop forests. | Maine south to Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. |  (c) Semmling, Bonnie - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex tetanica | Rigid Sedge | Moist forests, calcareous seeps, calcareous fens, wet prairies, wet meadows. | Massachusetts west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Alberta, south to New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, e. Tennessee (Campbell County; A. Floden, pers. comm.), Missouri, n. Arkansas, and Nebraska. Reports from North Carolina are all based on misidentifications. |  (c) Aaron, Nathan - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex woodii | Wood's Sedge | Moist slopes and cove forests over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite), ultramafic rocks (such as olivine), or felsic rocks. | New York west to Manitoba, south to North Carolina, nw. South Carolina (Gaddy et al. 1984), and n. Georgia, disjunct in sc. Missouri (Howell County). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |