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§1 Plant
Carex alopecoidea Tuck.
vernacular foxtail 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
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 143 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 143 counties across 18 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Beltrami 27007
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carlton 27017
- Cass 27021
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Faribault 27043
- Fillmore 27045
- Freeborn 27047
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Jackson 27063
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Martin 27091
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Mower 27099
- Norman 27107
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Rice 27131
- Roseau 27135
- Sherburne 27141
- Stearns 27145
- Swift 27151
- Todd 27153
- Wabasha 27157
- Washington 27163
- Wilkin 27167
- Wright 27171
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 20 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 21 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAAL8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2723357 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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