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§1 Plant

Carex gynocrates Wormsk. ex Drejer

vernacular northern bog sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CAGY2
GBIF
2724403
Rank
species
northern bog sedge (Carex gynocrates)
Platephotograph · no rights reservedCC0 · public domain source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Carex
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 71 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 71 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 71 counties across 8 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 15 N
Maine view state ↗ 2 N
Michigan view state ↗ 10 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 17 N
Montana view state ↗ 3 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N
New York view state ↗ 10 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 13 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CAGY2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2724403 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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