| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex acutiformis | Lesser Pond Sedge | Marsh edges, wet fields. | Native of Eurasia (FNA, Kartesz 1999). Introduced in Maryland and New York. |  (c) Cahen, Daniel - CC-BY |
| Cyperaceae | Carex hyalinolepis | Shoreline Sedge | Tidal marshes, tidal and nontidal swamp forests. | New Jersey south to Panhandle Florida, west to Texas, north in the interior to Kansas and Nebraska; disjunct around the Great Lakes in Michigan, Indiana, and s. Ontario. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex lacustris | Lakeshore Sedge, Lakeside Sedge | Calcareous spring marshes, freshwater to oligohaline tidal marshes. | Québec west to Saskatchewan, south to e. Virginia, w. Virginia, and Nebraska. Rejected from the Tennessee flora (Tennessee Flora Committee 2015). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex lasiocarpa var. americana | Slender Sedge | In shallow water of alkaline spring seeps, on hummocks in acidic basin marshes, and in high elevation fen over amphibolite. | A circumboreal species; var. lasiocarpa is Eurasian, var. americana ranges from Newfoundland and Labrador west to Alaska, south to New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland (C. Frye, pers. comm. 2000), Virginia, nw. North Carolina, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Utah, and n. California. Reported for the Ozark portion of Missouri (J. Thomas, pers. comm., 2020). First reported for Virginia by Wieboldt et al. (1998). Found for the first time in North Carolina in the valley of Long Hope Creek (Ashe County, North Carolina), in Jul 1999 by A.S. Weakley and P.D. McMillan. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex pellita | Woolly Sedge | Calcareous fens, wet meadows, depression swamps. | New Brunswick west to British Columbia, south to sc. North Carolina, w. Virginia, sc. North Carolina (Suther Prairie, Cabarrus County), sc. Tennessee (May Prairie, Coffee County), e. Tennessee, Arkansas, and California. |  (c) Marcum, Paul |
| Cyperaceae | Carex pumila | Open disturbed sand flats. | Native of e. Asia. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex striata var. brevis | Walter’s Sedge | Pocosins, limesink ponds, small depression ponds, clay-based Carolina bays, acid peaty swamps, wet savannas (dominated by Pinus serotina and/or Taxodium ascendens). | E. Massachusetts south to South Carolina. |  (c) Goldman, Douglas - CC-BY-SA |
| Cyperaceae | Carex striata var. striata | Walter’s Sedge, Pocosin Sedge | Pocosins, limesink ponds, small depression ponds, clay-based Carolina bays, acid peaty swamps, wet savannas (dominated by Pinus serotina and/or Taxodium ascendens). | South Carolina south to c. Florida and Panhandle Florida. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex vestita | Velvet Sedge | Low forests, bogs, seepage swamps, wet clearings and depressions. | S. Maine south to se. Virginia, sc. Tennessee (historical), c. North Carolina, and ne. Alabama (Dekalb Co.; Naczi 2891). See Ungberg (2022) for discussion of its occurrence in North Carolina. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |