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§1 Plant

Carex pellita Muhl. ex Willd.

vernacular woolly sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CAPE42
GBIF
2725592
Rank
species
woolly sedge (Carex pellita)
Platephotograph · Brian PopelierCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§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
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 138 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 138 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 138 counties across 13 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 7 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N
Maryland view state ↗ 13 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Montana view state ↗ 25 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 32 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 25 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CAPE42 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2725592 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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