Index / Search / Scirpus expansus
§1 Plant
Scirpus expansus Fernald
vernacular woodland bulrush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Scirpus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 165 counties across 20 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 165 counties across 20 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 15 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Alleghany 37005
- Ashe 37009
- Avery 37011
- Burke 37023
- Cherokee 37039
- Clay 37043
- Forsyth 37067
- Haywood 37087
- Henderson 37089
- Jackson 37099
- Macon 37113
- Madison 37115
- Mitchell 37121
- Polk 37149
- Rowan 37159
- Rutherford 37161
- Stokes 37169
- Surry 37171
- Swain 37173
- Transylvania 37175
- Watauga 37189
- Wilkes 37193
- Yancey 37199
Ohio view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Cameron 42023
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Fayette 42051
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SCEX ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2720257 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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