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§1 Plant

Cyperus retrorsus Chapm. var. retrorsus

vernacular pine barren flatsedge — variety · Cyperaceae


USDA
CYRER2
GBIF
2715517 syn.
Rank
variety
pine barren flatsedge (Cyperus retrorsus var. retrorsus)
Platephotograph · Grayson Lee Sasser source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Cyperus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 123 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 123 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 123 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N
Delaware view state ↗ 2 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 30 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 6 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 N
Texas view state ↗ 14 N
Virginia view state ↗ 31 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CYRER2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2715517 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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