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§1 Plant
Carex leptalea Wahlenb.
vernacular bristlystalked 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
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 396 counties across 23 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
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–6.9
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- 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
- No Known Source
- 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 396 counties across 23 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 16 N ▾
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bay 12005
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Dixie 12029
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Hernando 12053
- Holmes 12059
- Jefferson 12065
- Lafayette 12067
- Lake 12069
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Wakulla 12129
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 19 N ▾
- Allegany 24001
- Anne Arundel 24003
- Baltimore 24005
- Baltimore (city) 24510
- Calvert 24009
- Caroline 24011
- Carroll 24013
- Charles 24017
- Dorchester 24019
- Frederick 24021
- Garrett 24023
- Harford 24025
- Prince George's 24033
- Somerset 24039
- St. Mary's 24037
- Talbot 24041
- Washington 24043
- Wicomico 24045
- Worcester 24047
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 43 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Alleghany 37005
- Anson 37007
- Ashe 37009
- Avery 37011
- Brunswick 37019
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Craven 37049
- Dare 37055
- Davie 37059
- Forsyth 37067
- Harnett 37085
- Haywood 37087
- Henderson 37089
- Iredell 37097
- Jackson 37099
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lincoln 37109
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Stokes 37169
- Transylvania 37175
- Wake 37183
- Yancey 37199
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 65 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charlotte 51037
- Craig 51045
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Greensville 51081
- Hanover 51085
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- Lancaster 51103
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Westmoreland 51193
- Wise 51195
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CALE10 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2729017 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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