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§1 Plant
Carex prasina Wahlenb.
vernacular drooping 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
· 403 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 95 min.
- Precipitation
- 34–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–6.8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- 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
- Spring
- 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 403 counties across 24 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Steuben 36101
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Allen 39003
- Belmont 39013
- Coshocton 39031
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Hamilton 39061
- Harrison 39067
- Highland 39071
- Hocking 39073
- Huron 39077
- Jackson 39079
- Jefferson 39081
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Morrow 39117
- Portage 39133
- Stark 39151
- Trumbull 39155
- Union 39159
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Tennessee view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Blount 47009
- Carter 47019
- Claiborne 47025
- Cocke 47029
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Haywood 47075
- Hickman 47081
- Jefferson 47089
- Johnson 47091
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Madison 47113
- Monroe 47123
- Morgan 47129
- Pickett 47137
- Polk 47139
- Rhea 47143
- Scott 47151
- Sevier 47155
- Sullivan 47163
- Sumner 47165
- Unicoi 47171
- Union 47173
- Washington 47179
- Wayne 47181
Vermont view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 65 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Brunswick 51025
- Buchanan 51027
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Giles 51071
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Highland 51091
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Nottoway 51135
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince William 51153
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
- Wythe 51197
West Virginia view state ↗ 11 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAPR12 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2726203 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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