Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Cyperaceae | Carex acidicola | Mesic forests. | Nc. GA and c. AL south to sw. GA (Naczi, Bryson, & Cochrane 2002). | ||
Cyperaceae | Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge | Moist loamy forests, bottomlands, slopes, uplands. | MA, s. ON, MI, IL, MO, and OK, south to GA, AL, MS, LA, and TX. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex brysonii | Bryson’s Sedge | Mesic forests. | Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent Coastal Plain of n. AL (falsely reported for MS). | |
Cyperaceae | Carex bulbostylis | Globose Sedge | Moist deciduous forests, prairies, open meadows, especially in calcareous areas. | MS west to TX and OK; disjunct in sw. TN. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex calcifugens | Halfsweet Sedge | Rich bluff forests, evergreen maritime forests, rich soils over coquina limestone or shell middens. | Se. NC south to Panhandle FL. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex conoidea | Ancient Prairie Sedge | Calcareous and mafic fens and seepages; saturated meadows and fields over limestone, dolomite, or mafic rocks; depressions in upland prairies. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MN, south to nw. NC (Ashe Co. and Alleghany Co.), nw. AR, and MO. First found in NC by a party led by Asa Gray in 1841 "on the moist, grassy brow of a precipice of the Bluff"; located at a second site in NC by D.B. Poindexter. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex corrugata | Prune-fruited Sedge | Large-stream and river bottomlands, wet calcareous forests. | Se. VA, KY, and s. OH south to Panhandle FL and AL, west to TX. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Sedge | Ravine slopes over calcareous substrates. | Nearly endemic to the Edwards Plateau, but edging into the Blackland Prairie region. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex flaccosperma | Meadow Sedge | Mesic forests, well-drained bottomlands. | MD and se. VA south to Panhandle FL, west to TX, north in the interior to s. MO and IL. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex glaucodea | Blue Sedge | Prairies, upland woodlands, especially in hardpan situations with alternating wet and dry conditions. | MA and ON west to s. IN and MO, south to NC, sc. TN, and AR. {distribution and abundance needing additional herbarium investigation} | |
Cyperaceae | Carex godfreyi | Godfrey's Sedge | Calcareous swamps, bottomlands, and mesic forests. | Se. NC south to se. GA, c. peninsular FL south to Martin County (FL), and west to Panhandle FL, sw. GA, and s. AL. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex grisea | Inflated Narrowleaf Sedge | Well-drained floodplain forests, other mesic to dry-mesic forests, especially over base-rich substrates. | NB west to MN and SD, south to VA, TN, MS, LA, and TX. {habitats, distribution and abundance in our area needing additional herbarium investigation} | |
Cyperaceae | Carex hitchcockiana | Hitchcock’s Sedge | Rich, moist to dry forests, especially over limestone, other calcareous, or mafic rocks. | MA west to MN, south to NC, sc. TN, and AR. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex impressinervia | Moist forests, along small streams and lower mesic slopes, probably associated with mafic or calcareous rocks.. | Sc. NC south to AL and west to MS, apparently very rare and widely scattered. | ||
Cyperaceae | Carex oligocarpa | Eastern Few-fruited Sedge | Rich forests, over calcareous or mafic rocks. | MA west to MN, south to FL and TX. C. oligocarpa sensu stricto is in SC (P. McMillan, pers. comm., specimen at CLEMS). | |
Cyperaceae | Carex ouachitana | Ouachita Mountain Sedge | Dry to dry-mesic slope and ridge forests. | Disjunct in nc. TN and sc. KY from the Interior Highlands of w. AR and e. OK. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex paeninsulae | Peninsula Sedge | Mesic hammocks. | Endemic to FL peninsula, north into ne. FL (Suwanee and Duval counties). | |
Cyperaceae | Carex pigra | Lazy Sedge | Moist forests, bottomlands. | Se. VA west to se. and sc. TN, south to n. FL, s. AL, and ne. MS. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex planispicata | Flat-spiked Sedge | Rich to fairly acid mesic forests, on slopes and floodplains. | C. NJ west to s. IN, se. MO, and se. OK, south to c. GA, s. MS, and se. TX. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex thornei | Thorne's Sedge | Mesic deciduous forests, often in the upper floodplain. | Endemic to the drainage of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee and Flint in s. GA and s. AL south to Panhandle FL |
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