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§1 Plant

Carex willdenowii Schkuhr ex Willd.

vernacular Willdenow's sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CAWI2
GBIF
2725214
Rank
species
Willdenow's sedge (Carex willdenowii)
Platephotograph · Christopher David BendaCC BY-NC 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
§2b

County-level range

· 273 counties across 21 states/territories
Legend Native · 273 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 273 counties across 21 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N
Indiana view state ↗ 26 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 51 N
Maryland view state ↗ 16 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N
New York view state ↗ 15 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 14 N
Ohio view state ↗ 10 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 34 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 25 N
Texas view state ↗ 1 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
Virginia view state ↗ 41 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 16 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CAWI2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2725214 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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