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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Sedges
  7. True Sedges
  8. Carex Sect. Phaestoglochin
  9. Grassland Sedge

species 719 observations

Grassland Sedge

Carex leersii

Status
introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supports All

19 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Large Heath, Buff Grass-miner, Cottongrass Sedge-miner 3
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Large Marsh Grasshopper, Bird Cherry-oat Aphid, Plant Bug, Song Sparrow 16

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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