§1 Plant
Carex meadii Dewey
vernacular Mead's 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
· 228 counties across 21 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 228 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Bond 17005
- Boone 17007
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Clay 17025
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Cumberland 17035
- De Witt 17039
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Effingham 17049
- Fulton 17057
- Hancock 17067
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Livingston 17105
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Marshall 17123
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Monroe 17133
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Piatt 17147
- Pope 17151
- Putnam 17155
- Randolph 17157
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Union 17181
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Coffey 20031
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Dickinson 20041
- Douglas 20045
- Ellsworth 20053
- Franklin 20059
- Geary 20061
- Greenwood 20073
- Jackson 20085
- Labette 20099
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- Miami 20121
- Montgomery 20125
- Morris 20127
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Ottawa 20143
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Sumner 20191
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Cottonwood 27033
- Houston 27055
- Jackson 27063
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Martin 27091
- Murray 27101
- Nicollet 27103
- Norman 27107
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Red Lake 27125
- Renville 27129
- Rock 27133
- Sherburne 27141
- Swift 27151
- Washington 27163
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAME2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2724882 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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