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§1 Plant

Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh.

vernacular woollyfruit sedge — species · Cyperaceae


USDA
CALA11
GBIF
2728531
Rank
species
woollyfruit sedge (Carex lasiocarpa)
Platephotograph · aarongunnarCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 342 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 342 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 342 counties across 25 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 9 N ▾
California view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 51 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 40 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 34 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 50 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CALA11 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2728531 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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