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§1 Plant

Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd. var. scoparia

vernacular broom sedge — variety · Cyperaceae


USDA
CASCS
GBIF
2726539 syn.
Rank
variety
broom sedge (Carex scoparia var. scoparia)
Platephotograph · summerazureCC BY-NC-SA 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

· 382 counties across 20 states/territories
Legend Native · 382 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 382 counties across 20 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 3 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 27 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N
Maryland view state ↗ 20 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
Montana view state ↗ 1 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N
New York view state ↗ 50 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 40 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 66 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N
Vermont view state ↗ 14 N
Virginia view state ↗ 69 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 34 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CASCS ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2726539 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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