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§1 Plant
Carex multicostata Mack.
vernacular manyrib sedge — species · Cyperaceae
Platephotograph · "<a href=""http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/teams/shrub/shaw.htm"">USDA FS RMRS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab</a>."CC BY-NC-SA
source · iNaturalist ↗
§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
· 66 counties across 6 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 66 counties across 6 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Butte 06007
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Madera 06039
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Mono 06051
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Idaho view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAMU6 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2729331 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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