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Your search found 155 taxa.
Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Annual Greenhead Sedge
Look for it in moist soils of fields, ditches, lawns, shores of ponds and rivers
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whitehead Sedge
Look for it in moist soils of fields, ditches, lawns, shores of ponds and rivers, sand and gravel bars
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont; uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Crested Greenhead Sedge
Look for it in lawns, turf farms, athletic fields, golf courses, other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Asia
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Look for it in low fields, ditches, marshes, especially where seasonally flooded
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Granite Flatsedge
Look for it on granitic flatrocks, rarely on diabase flatrocks and Altamaha Grit glades
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in moist depressions and seepages on granitic and other rocks, drawdown riverbanks, moist disturbed sites
Uncommon in GA & SC Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Fragrant Flatsedge
Look for it in low fields, marshes, ditches
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in alluvial and other damp to wet soils
Uncommon
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
jointed flatsedge
Look for it in marshes, esp tidal
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Redroot Flatsedge
Look for it in marshes, ditches
Uncommon (common in NC-SC Coastal Plain, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Purple Nutsedge, Nutgrass, Cocograss
Look for it in gardens, fields, disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont)
Non-native
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Common Name:
Yellow Nutsedge, Yellow Nutgrass, Wild Chufa, Earth-almond
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Rice-field Flatsedge
Look for it in marshes, ditches, disturbed wet areas;
Common (rare in Mountains)
Non-native: Old World
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Common Name:
Poorland Flatsedge
Look for it in sandy fields, disturbed areas
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
green flatsedge
Look for it in marshes and ditches
Uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & SC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Nutsedge
Look for it in marshes, ditches, wet flatwoods, wet disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, and fields
Common in Carolinas, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Starburst Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Flatsedge, Plukenet’s Sedge
Look for it in sandhills, sandy woodlands, thin soils of rock outcrops, and dry, disturbed areas.
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in sandy woodlands, forests, fields, thin soils on outcrops, sand and gravel bars
Common in Piedmont & Carolina Coastal Plain, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pineland Flatsedge
Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, and rock outcrops
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Globe Sedge
Look for it in savannas, pine flatwoods, disturbed areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southeastern Flatsedge
Look for it in sandy or rocky woodlands, forests, and fields
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Old World tropics
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Common Name:
Deep-rooted Sedge
Look for it in bottomland hardwood forests, coastal grasslands, marshes, vacant lots, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: temperate South America
Look for it in disturbed areas
Non-native: Africa
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Common Name:
Three-way Sedge
Look for it on streambanks, in marshes, bogs, ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Horsetail Spikerush
Look for it in quiet waters of limesink (doline) ponds, natural lakes, borrow pits, ditches, artificial millponds
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in ponds, marshes
Uncommon in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in ditches, marshes, disturbed wet areas
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Canada spikesedge, Bent spikerush
Look for it in marshes
Rare
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common Name:
Sand Spikerush
Look for it in maritime wet grasslands, ponds, swales, ditches
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Viviparous Spikerush
Look for it in Coastal Plain ponds
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name:
Baldwin’s Spikerush, Slender Spikerush, Roadgrass, Hair Grass
Look for it in bogs, pools, acid shores
Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Whitetop Sedge, Giant White-topped Sedge, White-bracted Sedge
Look for it in wet savannas
Common in GA Coastal Plain (uncommon in NC-SC), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Whitetop Sedge, White-bracted Sedge
Look for it in wet savannas, ditches, dune swales
Uncommon, primarily endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Savannah Hairsedge
Look for it in moist to wet sands of savannas, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common (uncommon in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elliott's Hairsedge
Look for it in sandhills, usually associated with longleaf pine and wiregrass
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ware's Hairsedge
Look for it in sandhills, dry pine flatwoods, dunes
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
sandy field hairsedge
Look for it in sandhills, dry savannas, Florida scrub, and disturbed sandy areas
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Old World Hairsedge
Look for it in sandy fields
Common in GA & SC Coastal Plain (rare in Mtns & NC Piedmont)(uncommon elsewhere)
Non-native: Old World tropics
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Common Name:
Marsh Fimbry
Look for it in brackish marshes and dune swales
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Carolina Fimbry
Look for it in brackish or alkaline sands of marsh edges and dune swales, less typically in savannas or pine flatwoods
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Harper's Fimbry
Look for it in drawdown zones of natural depression ponds or exposed banks of blackwater rivers
Rare in Coastal Plain (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
ditch fimbry
Look for it in disturbed wetlands
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Deerhair Bulrush, Deergrass
Look for it on cliffs receiving fog/cloud deposition and seepage, mostly at high elevations, over amphibolite, granite, gneiss, or schist, notably at Grandfather Mtn, Roan Mtn, Whiteside Mtn, and Chimney Rock
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Keeled Bulrush
Look for it in moist soils adjacent to granitic flatrocks, seepage areas, ephemeral pools, moist sandy sites, low fields, ditches
Uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in tidal marshes, other marshes, inland salt marshes, rocky river beds, wet meadows
Common (uncommon in GA, rare in NC Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Softstem Bulrush, Great Bulrush
Look for it in tidal marshes, sedge meadows, streambeds, riverbeds, calcareous fens
Common (rare in GA Mountains & Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Saltmarsh Bulrush
Look for it in brackish marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woodland Bulrush
Look for it in bogs, fens, marshes, streambeds
Common in Carolinas, rare in GA
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Look for it in marshes
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Georgia Bulrush
Look for it in marshes, wet areas, ditches
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Leafy Bulrush
Look for it in marshes, floodplain forests, mountain bogs, seeps, fens
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Woolgrass Bulrush, Marsh Bulrush
Look for it in marshes, ditches, beaver ponds, disturbed wet ground
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Giant Bulrush, Southern Bulrush, Tule, California Bulrush
Look for it in marshes
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Look for it in ponds and marshes, esp in floating vegetation mats
Rare
Non-native? New World tropics?
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Look for it in ponds, ditches, ricefields, disturbed wet ground
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Tawny Cottongrass
Look for it in peaty sites, limited in habitat throughout the region, occurring in Mountains in bogs & fens, in Piedmont (formerly) in bogs, in the fall-line sandhills in burned-out pocosins, in Coastal Plain in pocosins, acidic seeps, & peat-burn pools
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Southern Umbrella-sedge
Look for it in natural lakes, pineland depression ponds, wet savannas
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Tracy's Beaksedge
Look for it in cypress savannas and graminoid-dominated depressions, in small, clay-based Carolina bays or shallow limesink ponds (dolines), typically in shallow water or at the lower margins of pond-shores
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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