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§1 Plant
Carex whitneyi Olney
vernacular Whitney's 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
· 24 counties across 3 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 24 counties across 3 states/territories.
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAWH ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2725671 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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