8 results for genus: Carex. section: [26kkk] Section 44 Phyllostachyae.
Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
Cyperaceae | Carex backii | Back's Sedge | Rocky woodlands and forests, cliff bases. | QC west to BC, south to NJ, PA, IA, and CO. Historic in our area (NJ, PA). Occurring further north in a few scattered areas of central NY, but otherwise no longer considered extant in our flora region. | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex basiantha | Southern Willdenow's Sedge, Widow Sedge | Mesic forests, wet flats, and lower slopes, over calcareous rocks or sediments. | Se. NC south to n. peninsular FL, Panhandle FL, west to e. TX, and north to nw. GA, c. TN, and c. AR. | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex jamesii | James's Sedge | Nutrient-rich bottomlands, levee forests, and mesic slopes over calcareous or mafic rocks. | MD and NY west to MI, MN, and e. NE, south to c. SC, GA, and LA. | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex juniperorum | Juniper Sedge | On edges of calcareous glades and barrens, in subxeric to submesic calcareous woodlands. | Known from a scattered and disjunct distribution: s. ON (alvars), s. OH and ne. KY (calcareous glades and barrens), and Montgomery Co., VA (Belden et al. 2004) and Botetourt Co., VA (Townsend, pers. comm., 2008) (calcareous glades and barrens). | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex latebracteata | Waterfall's Sedge | Dry-mesic to mesic forests over calcareous or subcalcareous substrate. | Endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of AR and OK. | |
Cyperaceae | Carex superata | Limestone Forest Sedge | Mesic calcareous forests and woodlands. | Sc. NC, nc. SC, sw. VA, sc. KY, and ne. MS, south to Panhandle FL and s. AL. Reported for sw. VA (as C. willdenowii var. megarrhyncha) by Wieboldt et al. (1998). | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex timida | Timid Sedge | Calcareous, dry to mesic woodlands and forests. | Scattered and disjunct, from OH, IN, s. IL, and s. MO to KY, TN, n. AL, and AR. | 
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Cyperaceae | Carex willdenowii | Willdenow’s Sedge | Calcareous mesic forests, but also in more acidic dry-mesic upland oak forests. | MA, VT, NY, s. ON, and c. IN, south to nc. SC, n. AL, and s. IL; disjunct in c. AR. | 
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