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§1 Plant
Carex albolutescens Schwein.
vernacular greenwhite sedge — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Carex
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 420 counties across 25 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–65 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.3–7.8
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 420 counties across 25 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bartow 13015
- Ben Hill 13017
- Bibb 13021
- Bulloch 13031
- Burke 13033
- Chatham 13051
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Decatur 13087
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Elbert 13105
- Emanuel 13107
- Glynn 13127
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Henry 13151
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lanier 13173
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Lowndes 13185
- McIntosh 13191
- Meriwether 13199
- Miller 13201
- Peach 13225
- Thomas 13275
- Wilcox 13315
Illinois view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Boone 17007
- Cass 17017
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Lake 17097
- Macon 17115
- Massac 17127
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Richland 17159
- St. Clair 17163
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adair 21001
- Ballard 21007
- Bath 21011
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Fayette 21067
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Larue 21123
- Laurel 21125
- Lincoln 21137
- Marshall 21157
- McCreary 21147
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Todd 21219
- Wayne 21231
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- East Feliciana 22037
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 20 N ▾
- Anne Arundel 24003
- Baltimore 24005
- Baltimore (city) 24510
- Calvert 24009
- Caroline 24011
- Cecil 24015
- Charles 24017
- Dorchester 24019
- Harford 24025
- Howard 24027
- Kent 24029
- Montgomery 24031
- Prince George's 24033
- Queen Anne's 24035
- Somerset 24039
- St. Mary's 24037
- Talbot 24041
- Washington 24043
- Wicomico 24045
- Worcester 24047
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Burke 37023
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Gates 37073
- Graham 37075
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Henderson 37089
- Hertford 37091
- Hyde 37095
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Person 37145
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Transylvania 37175
- Tyrrell 37177
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Columbia 42037
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Abbeville 45001
- Aiken 45003
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Greenwood 45047
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Lancaster 45057
- Marion 45067
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Orangeburg 45075
- Saluda 45081
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
Tennessee view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Bradley 47011
- Campbell 47013
- Carroll 47017
- Coffee 47031
- Cumberland 47035
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Grundy 47061
- Hardeman 47069
- Hardin 47071
- Henderson 47077
- Hickman 47081
- Jackson 47087
- Macon 47111
- Marion 47115
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Robertson 47147
- Rutherford 47149
- Sequatchie 47153
- Sevier 47155
- Sumner 47165
- Unicoi 47171
Virginia view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Amelia 51007
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Brunswick 51025
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Page 51139
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAAL5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2723628 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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