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§1 Plant
Carex echinata Murray
vernacular star 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
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 380 counties across 32 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–7.2
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.5 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
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- 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 380 counties across 32 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 9 N ▾
California view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Butte 06007
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lassen 06035
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Nevada 06057
- Plumas 06063
- San Bernardino 06071
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Colorado view state ↗ 8 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Alger 26003
- Allegan 26005
- Antrim 26009
- Baraga 26013
- Calhoun 26025
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Emmet 26047
- Genesee 26049
- Gogebic 26053
- Grand Traverse 26055
- Houghton 26061
- Ingham 26065
- Iosco 26069
- Iron 26071
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kalkaska 26079
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lake 26085
- Livingston 26093
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Montcalm 26117
- Muskegon 26121
- Ontonagon 26131
- Otsego 26137
- Ottawa 26139
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Washtenaw 26161
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Carlton 27017
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Crow Wing 27035
- Douglas 27041
- Freeborn 27047
- Hennepin 27053
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Pine 27115
- Rice 27131
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Washington 27163
- Wright 27171
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Baker 41001
- Clackamas 41005
- Clatsop 41007
- Coos 41011
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Douglas 41019
- Grant 41023
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lane 41039
- Lincoln 41041
- Linn 41043
- Marion 41047
- Tillamook 41057
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Yamhill 41071
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mifflin 42087
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 19 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 37 N ▾
- Adams 55001
- Ashland 55003
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Burnett 55013
- Chippewa 55017
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Douglas 55031
- Florence 55037
- Forest 55041
- Iowa 55049
- Iron 55051
- Jackson 55053
- Jefferson 55055
- La Crosse 55063
- Langlade 55067
- Lincoln 55069
- Marathon 55073
- Marinette 55075
- Marquette 55077
- Monroe 55081
- Oconto 55083
- Oneida 55085
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Rusk 55107
- Sauk 55111
- Sawyer 55113
- Shawano 55115
- Taylor 55119
- Vilas 55125
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Waupaca 55135
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAEC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2726894 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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