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§1 Plant
Carex straminea Willd. ex Schkuhr
vernacular eastern straw 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
· 128 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 95 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.7–6.9
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 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
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- 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 128 counties across 15 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Franklin 42055
- Jefferson 42065
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAST6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2724367 ↗Record version
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