| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex bushii | Bush’s Sedge | Moist to wet (rarely dry) prairies, meadows, fields, and alluvial areas, usually in moderately to strongly base-rich soils. | Massachusetts and s. New York west to Missouri and Kansas, south to North Carolina, sw. North Carolina (Bradley et al. [in prep.]), Georgia (Jones & Coile 1988), Mississippi, and Texas; disjunct in Michigan. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex caroliniana | Carolina Sedge | Floodplain forests, depression swamps, less commonly in mesic to dry-mesic forests. | New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Oklahoma south to South Carolina, e. Georgia, and Texas; apparently disjunct in Panhandle Florida and adjacent sw. Georgia. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex complanata | Hirsute Sedge | Bottomland forests and swamps, depression swamps, drier barrens. | New Jersey and s. Pennsylvania south to n. peninsular Florida and Panhandle Florida, west to Texas and Missouri; reportedly disjunct in Arizona and s. Mexico. |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex hirsutella | Hairy-leaved Sedge, Fuzzy Sedge | Dry-mesic oak-hickory forests, other mesic to dry forests, woodlands, and barrens. | Maine, s. Ontario, and Iowa, south to Georgia and ne. Texas. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex pallescens | Pale Sedge | Grassy balds at high elevations, other grassy openings. | Circumboreal (in ne. North America and n. Eurasia); in North America ranging from Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland), Québec, and Minnesota, south to w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, and Michigan. C. pallescens is reported to occur on Big Bald, Unicoi County, Tennessee, immediately adjacent to the North Carolina line (Churchill et al. 1992). Found in WN in 2025 (pers.comm.). |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex swanii | Swan’s Sedge | Nutrient-rich forests, woodlands, and openings. | Nova Scotia, s. Michigan, s. Wisconsin, south to nw. South Carolina and ne. Arkansas. |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex virescens | Ribbed Sedge | Nutrient-rich forests, woodlands, and openings. | S. Maine, New York, and s. Michigan, south to e. Virginia, w. North Carolina, nw. South Carolina, and Missouri. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |