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§1 Plant

Carex laxiflora Lam.

vernacular broad looseflower sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CALA19
GBIF
2724466
Rank
species
broad looseflower sedge (Carex laxiflora)
Platephotograph · biomaniaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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

· 611 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 611 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 611 counties across 25 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 24 N
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N
Indiana view state ↗ 56 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 61 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 14 N
Maryland view state ↗ 19 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 38 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 N
New York view state ↗ 53 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 30 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 65 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 51 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 66 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 41 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CALA19 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2724466 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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