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§1 Plant
Carex louisianica L.H. Bailey
vernacular Louisiana 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
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 235 counties across 16 states/territories§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 235 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Ballard 21007
- Barren 21009
- Bath 21011
- Caldwell 21033
- Calloway 21035
- Christian 21047
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Fleming 21069
- Hardin 21093
- Henderson 21101
- Hickman 21105
- Laurel 21125
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marshall 21157
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Montgomery 21173
- Ohio 21183
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rowan 21205
- Trigg 21221
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
- Whitley 21235
- Wolfe 21237
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- Franklin 22041
- Iberville 22047
- Lafayette 22055
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cumberland 37051
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Granville 37077
- Harnett 37085
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Person 37145
- Pitt 37147
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Carroll 47017
- Cheatham 47021
- Coffee 47031
- Davidson 47037
- Dickson 47043
- Dyer 47045
- Franklin 47051
- Gibson 47053
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Johnson 47091
- Lake 47095
- Lauderdale 47097
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Montgomery 47125
- Moore 47127
- Overton 47133
- Perry 47135
- Robertson 47147
- Rutherford 47149
- Stewart 47161
- Tipton 47167
- Warren 47177
- Wayne 47181
- Weakley 47183
- White 47185
Virginia view state ↗ 16 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CALO6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2728112 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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