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§1 Plant
Carex abscondita Mack.
vernacular thicket sedge — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Carex
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 221 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 165 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.8–6.8
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 0.7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 221 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 9 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Anson 37007
- Bladen 37017
- Chatham 37037
- Clay 37043
- Cumberland 37051
- Gates 37073
- Guilford 37081
- Haywood 37087
- Hertford 37091
- Hyde 37095
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- Orange 37135
- Pender 37141
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Rockingham 37157
- Sampson 37163
- Stokes 37169
- Wake 37183
- Washington 37187
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Anderson 47001
- Bledsoe 47007
- Blount 47009
- Campbell 47013
- Cumberland 47035
- Fentress 47049
- Franklin 47051
- Grundy 47061
- Hamilton 47065
- Haywood 47075
- Hickman 47081
- Jackson 47087
- Knox 47093
- Lauderdale 47097
- Lewis 47101
- Macon 47111
- Madison 47113
- Marion 47115
- Marshall 47117
- Montgomery 47125
- Morgan 47129
- Perry 47135
- Polk 47139
- Putnam 47141
- Rhea 47143
- Roane 47145
- Union 47173
Texas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Bath 51017
- Botetourt 51023
- Caroline 51033
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Greensville 51081
- Hanover 51085
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- Middlesex 51119
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northumberland 51133
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAAB5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2723821 ↗Record version
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