Index / Search / Carex cherokeensis
§1 Plant
Carex cherokeensis Schwein.
vernacular Cherokee 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
· 236 counties across 14 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 236 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Barbour 01005
- Calhoun 01015
- Clarke 01025
- Conecuh 01035
- Coosa 01037
- Dallas 01047
- Fayette 01057
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Limestone 01083
- Lowndes 01085
- Madison 01089
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Morgan 01103
- Shelby 01117
- Sumter 01119
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Jackson 05067
- Lee 05077
- Little River 05081
- Monroe 05095
- Perry 05105
- Poinsett 05111
- Pulaski 05119
- Sebastian 05131
- Sevier 05133
- St. Francis 05123
- Washington 05143
Florida view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Clarke 28023
- Clay 28025
- DeSoto 28033
- Forrest 28035
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Jasper 28061
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lamar 28073
- Lee 28081
- Madison 28089
- Neshoba 28099
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Oktibbeha 28105
- Pontotoc 28115
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Sharkey 28125
- Smith 28129
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Burleson 48051
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Cherokee 48073
- Dallas 48113
- Fannin 48147
- Fayette 48149
- Fort Bend 48157
- Freestone 48161
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Karnes 48255
- Kaufman 48257
- Lamar 48277
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Liberty 48291
- Matagorda 48321
- Milam 48331
- Montgomery 48339
- Navarro 48349
- Newton 48351
- Nueces 48355
- Orange 48361
- Polk 48373
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- San Jacinto 48407
- Tarrant 48439
- Tyler 48457
- Victoria 48469
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
- Wharton 48481
- Wise 48497
Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CACH3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2729727 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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