| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex billingsii | Billings’s Sedge | Wet, boggy areas. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) and Ontario south to s. New Jersey (Ocean County), ne. Pennsylvania, and Michigan. |  (c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex brunnescens var. sphaerostachya | Brown Sedge | Grassy balds, bogs, spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, moist rock outcrops, at moderate to high elevations. | Var. sphaerostachya is eastern North American, ranging south to New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota, south to w. North Carolina, e. Tennessee, and n. Georgia. The report of this species from South Carolina (Gaddy 1981; Kartesz 2009) is erroneous (Gaddy 2014). |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex canescens | Silvery Sedge | Acidic bogs, other wetlands. | Greenland and Alaska south to Maryland, West Virginia, Illinois, New Mexico, and California; Eurasia. Material in South America is a different taxon. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex disjuncta | Silvery Sedge | Bogs, depression ponds, swamps and marshes (including fresh to oligohaline tidal sites), often in disturbed areas. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland) west to Minnesota, south to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and Indiana. |  (c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex trisperma | Three-seeded Sedge | Bogs, seeps, and swamps at high elevations (in NC and VA), usually growing in living Sphagnum, in shaded situations under shrubs or trees in montane wetlands, northward in bogs at low elevations. | Newfoundland and Labrador (Labrador) west to Saskatchewan, south to New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, n. Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota; and in the mountains to w. North Carolina and West Virginia. |  (c) Pogacnik, Shaun - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |