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§1 Plant
Carex austrina (Small) Mack.
vernacular southern 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
· 130 counties across 13 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 130 counties across 13 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Bourbon 20011
- Brown 20013
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Cherokee 20021
- Cloud 20029
- Cowley 20035
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Greenwood 20073
- Jackson 20085
- Jewell 20089
- Labette 20099
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- Miami 20121
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Ottawa 20143
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Atchison 29005
- Bates 29013
- Boone 29019
- Caldwell 29025
- Clinton 29049
- Greene 29077
- Grundy 29079
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Lafayette 29107
- Livingston 29117
- McDonald 29119
- Mississippi 29133
- New Madrid 29143
- Pettis 29159
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Reynolds 29179
- Saline 29195
- Scott 29201
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Colorado 48089
- Cooke 48097
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Gregg 48183
- Jefferson 48245
- Kerr 48265
- Lavaca 48285
- Leon 48289
- Madison 48313
- Robertson 48395
- San Patricio 48409
- Shelby 48419
- Smith 48423
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Travis 48453
- Victoria 48469
- Washington 48477
- Wichita 48485
- Wood 48499
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAAU6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2728799 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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