Carex ignotaDewey

WFO wfo-0000347632 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Carex ignota, photographed by John Kees
fig. a John Kees, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-03 / obs. 203111268
Carex ignota, photographed by Jeff Wilson
fig. b Jeff Wilson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189233210
Carex ignota, photographed by John Kees
fig. c John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 129513440
Carex ignota, photographed by John Kees
fig. d John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 123129156
Carex ignota, photographed by Alex Abair
fig. e Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114574353
Carex ignota, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. f Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74620681
Carex ignota, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. g Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73477593
Carex ignota, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. h Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73478503

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
11158
Filed as
Carex ignota Dewey
Det. by
J. R. Manhart 1985-01-01
Collected
D. Hale
Origin
US
The sheet
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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Carex ignota is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexas
Native distribution of Carex ignota, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Carex bulbosa Boeckeler

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.