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§1 Plant
Cyperus flavicomus Michx.
vernacular whiteedge flatsedge — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cyperus
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 124 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 124 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bertie 37015
- Caswell 37033
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Davidson 37057
- Durham 37063
- Edgecombe 37065
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Greene 37079
- Harnett 37085
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Nash 37127
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Person 37145
- Pitt 37147
- Scotland 37165
- Stokes 37169
- Tyrrell 37177
- Union 37179
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 20 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Brunswick 51025
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- King William 51101
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CYFL5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7393871 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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