| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex annectens | Yellow-fruited Sedge | Marshes, bottomland forests, drier forests and woodlands. | S. Maine west to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex fissa var. aristata | Hammock Sedge | Wet pine savannas, roadside banks and ditches. | Extreme se. South Carolina (Jasper Co.), s. Georgia (Clinch County) (Carter, Baker, & Morris 2009; Sorrie 1998b) south to c. peninsular Florida, west to Florida Panhandle and s. Mississippi (Bryson et al. 1996). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex fissa var. fissa | Western Hammock Sedge | Prairie depressions, eastwards introduced in disturbed areas, including roadside ditches, sediment control ponds, and old railroad stockyards (well-established). | S. Illinois, Missouri, se. Kansas, and Oklahoma south to Arkansas, se. Texas, and Tamaulipas. See Simmons, Strong, & Parrish (2008) for additional information about the Virginia occurrence, and Knapp et al. (2011) and Longbottom, Naczi, & Knapp (2016) about the Maryland and Delaware occurrences. McKenzie & Nelson (2022) discussed occurrences in Missouri. |  (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex triangularis | Eastern Fox Sedge | Moist forests, ditches, other wet sites. | South Carolina and Georgia west to Kansas and Texas. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Cyperaceae | Carex vulpinoidea | Fox Sedge | Low fields, ditches, fens, seeps, tidal freshwater marshes, other wet (and especially disturbed) sites. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to British Columbia, south to Florida, Texas, Sonora, and California, and Mexico (Michoacán, Oaxaca, Sonora). |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |