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§1 Plant
Carex molesta Mack. ex Bright
vernacular troublesome 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
· 165 counties across 21 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 24–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.9–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3 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
- 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 165 counties across 21 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Chase 20017
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Franklin 20059
- Greenwood 20073
- Jackson 20085
- Jefferson 20087
- Johnson 20091
- Leavenworth 20103
- Linn 20107
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- Miami 20121
- Morton 20129
- Neosho 20133
- Osborne 20141
- Republic 20157
- Riley 20161
- Russell 20167
- Shawnee 20177
- Woodson 20207
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Livingston 36051
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Putnam 36079
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAMO11 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2725562 ↗Record version
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