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§1 Plant
Carex trichocarpa Muhl. ex Willd.
vernacular hairyfruit 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
· 210 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 18–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–7
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- 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
- 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 210 counties across 20 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Boone 17007
- Bureau 17011
- Champaign 17019
- Cook 17031
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Rock Island 17161
- Sangamon 17167
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Vermilion 17183
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Herkimer 36043
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Montgomery 36057
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Rensselaer 36083
- Seneca 36099
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Cumberland 42041
- Delaware 42045
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Juniata 42067
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 19 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Columbia 55021
- Crawford 55023
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Iowa 55049
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Lafayette 55065
- Manitowoc 55071
- Milwaukee 55079
- Monroe 55081
- Ozaukee 55089
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- St. Croix 55109
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vernon 55123
- Walworth 55127
- Waukesha 55133
- Winnebago 55139
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CATR8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2726981 ↗Record version
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