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§1 Plant
Carex striatula Michx.
vernacular lined 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
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 291 counties across 17 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 291 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Alexander 37003
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Caldwell 37027
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Cleveland 37045
- Columbus 37047
- Dare 37055
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Iredell 37097
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Orange 37135
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Rockingham 37157
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Wayne 37191
- Wilkes 37193
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Armstrong 42005
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Fayette 42051
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Venango 42121
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
South Carolina view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Bradley 47011
- Cheatham 47021
- Chester 47023
- Claiborne 47025
- Clay 47027
- Cumberland 47035
- Davidson 47037
- Decatur 47039
- DeKalb 47041
- Dickson 47043
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grainger 47057
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Jackson 47087
- Knox 47093
- Lawrence 47099
- Lewis 47101
- Loudon 47105
- Madison 47113
- Marshall 47117
- Maury 47119
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Overton 47133
- Putnam 47141
- Rhea 47143
- Roane 47145
- Scott 47151
- Sevier 47155
- Sullivan 47163
- Union 47173
- Wayne 47181
- Williamson 47187
Virginia view state ↗ 74 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Bland 51021
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Carroll 51035
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dickenson 51051
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- Lancaster 51103
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Lunenburg 51111
- Madison 51113
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northumberland 51133
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Richmond 51159
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Southampton 51175
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Sussex 51183
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAST17 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2722475 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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