Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

A familiar plant of upland forests in the mountains? or it may prove that this species, as traditionally understood, does not occur in NC. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex pensylvanica   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-044:

Carex pensylvanica var. pensylvanica   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Carex pennsylvanica

COMMON NAME:
Pennsylvania Sedge, High Meadow Sedge

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cape6_001_lvd

        

L.L. (Chick) Gaddy    llg_pennsedgemthardygap

May?    Jackson County    NC

Here seen in a beech gap forest at Mt Hardy Gap, Blue Ridge Pkwy, MP 426, per Alpine South: Plants and Plant Communities of the High Elevations of the Southern Appalachians (Gaddy, 2014).

JK Marlow    jkm0407t_11

July    Mitchell County    NC

The Roan Highlands

A low-growing grass-like sedge w orderly drooping stems & 2-4 narrow leaves, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

JK Marlow    jkm0407t_15

July    Mitchell County    NC

The Roan Highlands

Low-growing clumps of very fine linear foliage, spreading by stolons, per Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002).

JK Marlow    jkm0407u_18

July    Mitchell County    NC

The Roan Highlands

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Carex pensylvanica   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carex pensylvanica   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-17-044:
Carex pensylvanica var. pensylvanica   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carex pennsylvanica