§1 Plant
Carex comosa Boott
vernacular longhair 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
· 599 counties across 38 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.6–7.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- 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
- Mid Summer
- 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 599 counties across 38 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 4 N ▾
California view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Boone 17007
- Bureau 17011
- Cass 17017
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Gallatin 17059
- Grundy 17063
- Johnson 17087
- Kane 17089
- Lake 17097
- Macon 17115
- Marshall 17123
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Vermilion 17183
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Allen 18003
- Cass 18017
- Crawford 18025
- DeKalb 18033
- Elkhart 18039
- Floyd 18043
- Fountain 18045
- Fulton 18049
- Hamilton 18057
- Howard 18067
- Huntington 18069
- Jasper 18073
- Jay 18075
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lagrange 18087
- Lake 18089
- LaPorte 18091
- Madison 18095
- Marshall 18099
- Miami 18103
- Noble 18113
- Porter 18127
- Pulaski 18131
- St. Joseph 18141
- Starke 18149
- Steuben 18151
- Wells 18179
- Whitley 18183
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 56 N ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Allegan 26005
- Alpena 26007
- Barry 26015
- Berrien 26021
- Branch 26023
- Calhoun 26025
- Cass 26027
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Clare 26035
- Clinton 26037
- Crawford 26039
- Eaton 26045
- Emmet 26047
- Genesee 26049
- Gogebic 26053
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Gratiot 26057
- Hillsdale 26059
- Huron 26063
- Ingham 26065
- Iosco 26069
- Iron 26071
- Isabella 26073
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lapeer 26087
- Leelanau 26089
- Livingston 26093
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Manistee 26101
- Marquette 26103
- Mecosta 26107
- Menominee 26109
- Midland 26111
- Montcalm 26117
- Montmorency 26119
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Oakland 26125
- Oceana 26127
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- Roscommon 26143
- Sanilac 26151
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Tuscola 26157
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Benton 27009
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Le Sueur 27079
- Meeker 27093
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Scott 27139
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Todd 27153
- Wabasha 27157
- Waseca 27161
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Allen 39003
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Auglaize 39011
- Champaign 39021
- Columbiana 39029
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Darke 39037
- Erie 39043
- Franklin 39049
- Geauga 39055
- Hamilton 39061
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Perry 39127
- Pickaway 39129
- Portage 39133
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
Oregon view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Caroline 51033
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Highland 51091
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Louisa 51109
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Northumberland 51133
- Nottoway 51135
- Richmond 51159
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- Westmoreland 51193
- Wythe 51197
- York 51199
Washington view state ↗ 14 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Ashland 55003
- Barron 55005
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Burnett 55013
- Calumet 55015
- Chippewa 55017
- Clark 55019
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Eau Claire 55035
- Fond du Lac 55039
- Forest 55041
- Green 55045
- Green Lake 55047
- Iron 55051
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- La Crosse 55063
- Langlade 55067
- Lincoln 55069
- Manitowoc 55071
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Marquette 55077
- Menominee 55078
- Milwaukee 55079
- Oconto 55083
- Oneida 55085
- Outagamie 55087
- Ozaukee 55089
- Polk 55095
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Rusk 55107
- Sauk 55111
- Sawyer 55113
- Shawano 55115
- Sheboygan 55117
- St. Croix 55109
- Taylor 55119
- Trempealeau 55121
- Vilas 55125
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Waupaca 55135
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CACO8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2723213 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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