| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex acidicola | Mesic forests. | Nc. Georgia and c. Alabama south to sw. Georgia (Naczi, Bryson, & Cochrane 2002). |  © Scott Ward | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex amphibola | Eastern Narrowleaf Sedge | Moist loamy forests, bottomlands, slopes, uplands. | Massachusetts, s. Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma, south to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex brysonii | Bryson’s Sedge | Mesic forests. | Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent Coastal Plain of n. Alabama (falsely reported for Mississippi). |  © Scott Ward |
| Cyperaceae | Carex bulbostylis | Globose Sedge | Moist deciduous forests, prairies, open meadows, especially in calcareous areas. | Mississippi west to Texas and Oklahoma; disjunct in sw. Tennessee. |  (c) Campos, Aidan - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex calcifugens | Halfsweet Sedge | Rich bluff forests, evergreen maritime forests, rich soils over coquina limestone or shell middens. | Se. North Carolina south to Panhandle Florida. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| 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. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to nw. North Carolina (Ashe Co. and Alleghany Co.), nw. Arkansas, and Missouri. First found in North Carolina by a party led by Asa Gray in 1841 "on the moist, grassy brow of a precipice of the Bluff" (where it still occurs); located at a second site in North Carolina by D.B. Poindexter. Alleged to occur in sw. United States (Kartesz 2022), these occurrences considered introduced by POWO (2024). |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex corrugata | Prune-fruited Sedge | Large-stream and river bottomlands, wet calcareous forests. | Se. Virginia, Kentucky, and s. Ohio south to Panhandle Florida and Alabama, west to c. Texas. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Cyperaceae | Carex edwardsiana | Edwards Plateau Sedge | Ravine slopes over calcareous substrates. | Nearly endemic to the Edwards Plateau, but edging into the Blackland Prairie region. |  (c) Keith, Eric - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex flaccosperma | Meadow Sedge | Mesic forests, well-drained bottomlands. | Maryland and se. Virginia south to Panhandle Florida, west to Texas, north in the interior to s. Missouri and Illinois. {distribution and abundance needing additional herbarium investigation} |  (c) Smith, Jake - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex glaucodea | Blue Sedge | Prairies, upland woodlands, especially in hardpan situations with alternating wet and dry conditions. | Massachusetts and Ontario west to s. Indiana and Missouri, south to North Carolina, sc. Tennessee, and Arkansas. {distribution and abundance needing additional herbarium investigation} |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex godfreyi | Godfrey's Sedge | Calcareous swamps, bottomlands, and mesic forests. | Se. North Carolina south to se. Georgia, c. peninsular Florida south to Martin County (Florida), and west to Panhandle Florida, sw. Georgia, and s. Alabama. |  (c) Arendell, Adam |
| Cyperaceae | Carex grisea | Inflated Narrowleaf Sedge | Well-drained floodplain forests, other mesic to dry-mesic forests, especially over base-rich substrates. | New Brunswick west to Minnesota and South Dakota, south to Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas. {habitats, distribution and abundance in our area needing additional herbarium investigation} |  (c) Pogacnik, Shaun - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex hitchcockiana | Hitchcock’s Sedge | Rich, moist to dry forests, especially over limestone, other calcareous, or mafic rocks. | Massachusetts west to Minnesota, south to North Carolina, sc. Tennessee, and Arkansas. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex impressinervia | Moist forests, along small streams and lower mesic slopes, probably associated with mafic or calcareous rocks. | Sc. North Carolina south to Alabama and west to Mississippi, apparently very rare and widely scattered. |  (c) Ward, Scott G | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex oligocarpa | Eastern Few-fruited Sedge | Rich forests, over calcareous or mafic rocks. | Massachusetts west to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. C. oligocarpa sensu stricto is in South Carolina (P. McMillan, pers. comm., specimen at CLEMS). |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex ouachitana | Ouachita Mountain Sedge | Dry to dry-mesic slope and ridge forests. | Disjunct in nc. Tennessee and sc. Kentucky from the Interior Highlands of w. Arkansas and e. Oklahoma. |  (c) Ward, Scott - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex paeninsulae | Peninsula Sedge | Mesic hammocks. | Endemic to Florida peninsula, north into ne. Florida (Suwanee and Duval counties). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex pigra | Lazy Sedge | Moist forests, bottomlands. | Se. Virginia west to se. and sc. Tennessee, south to n. Florida, s. Alabama, and ne. Mississippi. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex planispicata | Flat-spiked Sedge | Rich to fairly acid mesic forests, on slopes and floodplains. | C. New Jersey west to s. Indiana, se. Missouri, and se. Oklahoma, south to c. Georgia, s. Mississippi, and se. Texas. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| 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. Georgia and s. Alabama south to Panhandle Florida. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |