| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex atherodes | Awned Sedge | Marl fens, bottomland prairies, wet meadows, marshes. | Circumboreal, south in North America to New York, n. Virginia, n. West Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Cyperaceae | Carex hirta | Dry sandy areas. | Native of Europe. The report of C. hirta for North Carolina (Burk 1961, RAB) is based on a misidentification of C. pumila (Reznicek 1993). |  (c) Wang, Zihao - CC-BY | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex laeviconica | Smooth-cone Sedge | Moist forests and wetlands. | Ontario west to Saskatchewan, south to Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Montana. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex trichocarpa | Hairy-fruited Sedge | Calcareous fens, wet meadows, marshes. | Québec west to Minnesota, south to Delaware, w. North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, and Missouri. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |