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§1 Plant
Carex bicknellii Britton
vernacular Bicknell's 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
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 321 counties across 25 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–6.6
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3.4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- 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
- Summer
- 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 321 counties across 25 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Bond 17005
- Boone 17007
- Brown 17009
- Carroll 17015
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Cumberland 17035
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Edgar 17045
- Effingham 17049
- Fayette 17051
- Ford 17053
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- Lee 17103
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Marion 17121
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Montgomery 17135
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Pike 17149
- Sangamon 17167
- Shelby 17173
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Washington 17189
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Anderson 20003
- Atchison 20005
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Coffey 20031
- Crawford 20037
- Douglas 20045
- Franklin 20059
- Jackson 20085
- Labette 20099
- Linn 20107
- Lyon 20111
- Nemaha 20131
- Neosho 20133
- Osage 20139
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Sherman 20181
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Anoka 27003
- Benton 27009
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Chisago 27025
- Clay 27027
- Dakota 27037
- Dodge 27039
- Douglas 27041
- Faribault 27043
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Jackson 27063
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lyon 27083
- McLeod 27085
- Meeker 27093
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Mower 27099
- Nicollet 27103
- Nobles 27105
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Redwood 27127
- Renville 27129
- St. Louis 27137
- Steele 27147
- Swift 27151
- Todd 27153
- Traverse 27155
- Wadena 27159
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Wright 27171
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Missouri view state ↗ 49 N ▾
- Adair 29001
- Atchison 29005
- Audrain 29007
- Barton 29011
- Bates 29013
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Caldwell 29025
- Callaway 29027
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Christian 29043
- Clay 29047
- Crawford 29055
- Daviess 29061
- Gentry 29075
- Harrison 29081
- Holt 29087
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Lincoln 29113
- Livingston 29117
- Macon 29121
- Marion 29127
- Monroe 29137
- Nodaway 29147
- Pettis 29159
- Phelps 29161
- Pike 29163
- Putnam 29171
- Ralls 29173
- Randolph 29175
- Shannon 29203
- Shelby 29205
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Francois 29187
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Sullivan 29211
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Vernon 29217
- Webster 29225
- Worth 29227
Nebraska view state ↗ 17 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 15 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Brown 55009
- Buffalo 55011
- Chippewa 55017
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Dunn 55033
- Eau Claire 55035
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Green Lake 55047
- Iowa 55049
- Jackson 55053
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Lafayette 55065
- Marquette 55077
- Milwaukee 55079
- Monroe 55081
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- St. Croix 55109
- Trempealeau 55121
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CABI3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2725637 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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