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§1 Plant
Fuirena simplex Vahl
vernacular western umbrella-sedge — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Fuirena
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 164 counties across 10 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 164 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Camden 29029
- Carroll 29033
- Crawford 29055
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Holt 29087
- Howell 29091
- Iron 29093
- Jackson 29095
- Jefferson 29099
- Marion 29127
- Miller 29131
- Oregon 29149
- Ozark 29153
- Platte 29165
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Francois 29187
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Warren 29219
- Washington 29221
- Wayne 29223
- Wright 29229
Nebraska view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bryan 40013
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Cotton 40033
- Custer 40039
- Grady 40051
- Grant 40053
- Greer 40055
- Jefferson 40067
- Johnston 40069
- Kiowa 40075
- Love 40085
- Marshall 40095
- McCurtain 40089
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Payne 40119
- Pontotoc 40123
- Seminole 40133
- Woods 40151
- Woodward 40153
Texas view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Aransas 48007
- Bandera 48019
- Bell 48027
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Coleman 48083
- Collingsworth 48087
- Colorado 48089
- Comal 48091
- Cooke 48097
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- DeWitt 48123
- Donley 48129
- Edwards 48137
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Hemphill 48211
- Hill 48217
- Irion 48235
- Jefferson 48245
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Lavaca 48285
- Lipscomb 48295
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Mills 48333
- Nueces 48355
- Oldham 48359
- Parker 48367
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Real 48385
- Roberts 48393
- Rockwall 48397
- San Saba 48411
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Wichita 48485
- Williamson 48491
- Wise 48497
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FUSI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2719098 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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