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§1 Plant
Carex lacustris Willd.
vernacular hairy 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
· 327 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–6.8
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 327 counties across 21 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Cook 17031
- DuPage 17043
- Fayette 17051
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Jackson 17077
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Johnson 17087
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lee 17103
- Logan 17107
- Macon 17115
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- Menard 17129
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Piatt 17147
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Richland 17159
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Stephenson 17177
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Wayne 17191
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Bartholomew 18005
- Clinton 18023
- Delaware 18035
- Elkhart 18039
- Grant 18053
- Hamilton 18057
- Howard 18067
- Jay 18075
- Jefferson 18077
- Knox 18083
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lake 18089
- Madison 18095
- Miami 18103
- Monroe 18105
- Montgomery 18107
- Noble 18113
- Porter 18127
- Posey 18129
- Putnam 18133
- Randolph 18135
- Rush 18139
- Shelby 18145
- Steuben 18151
- Sullivan 18153
- Wells 18179
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Allegan 26005
- Arenac 26011
- Baraga 26013
- Bay 26017
- Berrien 26021
- Cass 26027
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clinton 26037
- Eaton 26045
- Emmet 26047
- Genesee 26049
- Gogebic 26053
- Gratiot 26057
- Hillsdale 26059
- Houghton 26061
- Huron 26063
- Ingham 26065
- Ionia 26067
- Iosco 26069
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Marquette 26103
- Mecosta 26107
- Monroe 26115
- Montcalm 26117
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Oakland 26125
- Ontonagon 26131
- Presque Isle 26141
- Roscommon 26143
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Shiawassee 26155
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Beltrami 27007
- Blue Earth 27013
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Hubbard 27057
- Itasca 27061
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Le Sueur 27079
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- McLeod 27085
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Nicollet 27103
- Norman 27107
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Rice 27131
- Roseau 27135
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- Sibley 27143
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Wabasha 27157
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Wilkin 27167
- Wright 27171
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Clearfield 42033
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Schuylkill 42107
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CALA16 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2724064 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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