| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyperaceae | Carex cryptolepis | Yellow Sedge | Acid, boggy sites. | Newfoundland and Labrador west to Minnesota, south to New Jersey, New York, s. Ohio, c. Indiana, and ne. Illinois. |  (c) Steven, Daniel - C, permission granted to NCBG |
| Cyperaceae | Carex demissa ssp. demissa | Wet, acid areas. | Native of Europe. | ||
| Cyperaceae | Carex flava | Yellow Sedge | Calcareous fens and seeps. | Circumboreal, ranging south in North America to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Idaho, and British Columbia; disjunct in sw. Virginia (Giles County). First reported for Virginia by Wieboldt et al. (1998). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex lutea | Golden Sedge | Wet pine savannas shallowly underlain by coquina limestone, with open canopy of Taxodium ascendens, Pinus palustris, and Liriodendron tulipifera, also more acid substrates in Panhandle FL, where in wet pineland ecotones between sandhills and small stream swamps. | Known from isolated locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida. Originally thought to be endemic to Pender and Onslow counties, North Carolina (where associated with other narrow endemics, such as Thalictrum cooleyi and Allium species 1, and other rare species, such as Plantago sparsiflora, Parnassia caroliniana, Rhynchospora thornei, and others), but discovered in 2021 in e. South Carolina (Francis Marion Newfoundland and Labrador) and Panhandle Florida (by Lilly Anderson-Messec). |  (c) Ward, Scott G |
| Cyperaceae | Carex viridistellata | Calcareous fens. | C. Michigan and n. Indiana south to extreme s. Ohio and c. Indiana. |  (c) Bourgoin, Sheila Collins - CC-BY | |
| Cyperaceae | Carex viridula | Green Sedge | Calcareous sand flats, pond shores, fens. | Circumboreal, south in North America to n. New Jersey, e. Pennsylvania, nw. Pennsylvania, c. Ohio, n. Indiana, ne. Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, New Mexico, Utah, and California. |  (c) Ward, Scott G |