Index / Search / Carex oxylepis var. oxylepis
§1 Plant
Carex oxylepis Torr. & Hook. var. oxylepis
vernacular sharpscale sedge — variety · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Carex
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 146 counties across 13 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 146 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Bedford 47003
- Cocke 47029
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- Dickson 47043
- Franklin 47051
- Hamilton 47065
- Hardin 47071
- Haywood 47075
- Hickman 47081
- Jackson 47087
- Lauderdale 47097
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Loudon 47105
- Madison 47113
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- Montgomery 47125
- Rutherford 47149
- Shelby 47157
- Tipton 47167
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAOXO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7227075 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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