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§1 Plant

Carex complanata Torr. & Hook.

vernacular hirsute sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CACO9
GBIF
2722980
Rank
species
hirsute sedge (Carex complanata)
Platephotograph · Douglas GoldmanCC BY-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 418 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 418 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 418 counties across 16 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 20 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 15 N
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 10 N
Georgia view state ↗ 25 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 40 N
Maryland view state ↗ 19 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 63 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 28 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 69 N
Virginia view state ↗ 80 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CACO9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2722980 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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