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Carex echinata Murray
star sedge

       
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Photo of Carex echinata Murray
Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute. Usage Requirements.
 
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Carex echinata Murray

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Distribution:
Carex echinata Murray

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USA (AK, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK), FRA (SPM)
 

Related Taxa:
Carex echinata Murray

View 36 genera in Cyperaceae, 579 species in Carex or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.
Distribution of Carex echinata Murray ssp. echinata. . Image Available.
Carex echinata ssp. echinata
star sedge
Distribution of Carex echinata Murray ssp. phyllomanica (W. Boott) Reznicek. .
Carex echinata ssp. phyllomanica
star sedge
Plant is native (blue) Native   Plant is introduced Introduced
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Classification:
Carex echinata Murray

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Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass Commelinidae
Order Cyperales
Family Cyperaceae – Sedge family
Genus Carex L. – sedge
Species Carex echinata Murray – star sedge
 

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Carex echinata Murray

This plant and the related entityitalicized and indented below are listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Illinois:
little prickly sedge              Endangered
Indiana:
little prickly sedge              Endangered
Ohio:
little prickly sedge              Endangered
Tennessee:
Carex echinata ssp. echinata
little prickly sedge              Special Concern
 

Wetland Indicator Status:
Carex echinata Murray

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
OBL OBL* OBL OBL NO NO NO NO OBL NI OBL OBL NO OBL

Carex ormantha [=CAECE]:

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
OBL NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NI OBL OBL NO NO NO

Carex phyllomanica [=CAECP]:

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
OBL NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO OBL OBL OBL NO NO

Carex svensonis [=CAECE]:

Nat. Ind. Reg. 1 Reg. 2 Reg. 3 Reg. 4 Reg. 5 Reg. 6 Reg. 7 Reg. 8 Reg. 9 Reg. 0 Reg. A Reg. C Reg. H
OBL NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO OBL
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More Accounts and Images:
Carex echinata Murray

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 39582.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

 
 
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