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§1 Plant
Carex brevior (Dewey) Mack.
vernacular shortbeak 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
· 165 counties across 17 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 165 counties across 17 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Nassau 36059
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CABR10 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2722447 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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