| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex allegheniensis | Allegheny Sedge | Swamps, bogs, streamhead pocosins, other moist to wet habitats, boggy pools in floodplains. | Primarily from Pennsylvania south to n. Georgia, mostly in the Appalachian Mountains; scattered reports more broadly need additional evaluation. |  © NCU Herbarium staff |
| Cyperaceae | Carex arctata | Black Sedge, Drooping Woodland Sedge | Northern hardwood and spruce forests, bog edges, moist forests northwards in our region. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to Pennsylvania, w. Virginia, nw. North Carolina (Long Hope Valley, Ashe County; Grandfather Mountain), and Ohio. First reported for Virginia (Highland County) by Fleming & Ludwig (1996). |  (c) Wiegersma, Quinten - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex debilis | White-edged Sedge, Weak Sedge | Swamps, bogs, other moist to wet habitats. | Massachusetts west to s. Indiana, south to n. peninsular Florida, Panhandle Florida, and Texas. |  (c) Bradley, Keith |
| Cyperaceae | Carex flexuosa | Flexuous White-edge Sedge, Rudge’s White-edge Sedge | Dry to moist upland forests, openings, grassy balds, granitic domes, rock outcrops. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to Virginia and Missouri, and in the Appalachian Mountains to w. North Carolina and e. Tennessee. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex oblita | Southern Dark Green Sedge | Bogs, seeps, sphagnous swamps. and other wet habitats. | New York (Long Island) and New Jersey south to sc. Georgia, west to w. Louisiana, mostly on the Coastal Plain, but extending much less commonly inland to the Piedmont and Mountains. |  (c) Weakley, Alan |
| Cyperaceae | Carex sylvatica | European Woodland Sedge | Pastures, lawns. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Harant, Petr - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex venusta | Dark Green Sedge | Bay swamps, peat bogs, mossy wetlands, and other wet habitats. | Se. Virginia south to Panhandle Florida, on the Coastal Plain. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |