Carex venustaDewey

darkgreen sedge

WFO wfo-0000352359 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. a Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-05 / obs. 126911183
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. b Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126911070
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. c Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75295402
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. d Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126911114
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. e Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75295424
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. f Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126911149
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. g Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75295457
Carex venusta, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. h Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75295483

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Carex venusta is native: Alabama, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMarylandMississippiNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginia DelawareDistrict of Columbia
Native distribution of Carex venusta, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG

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 6 synonyms

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 glabra Boott
  • Carex oblita Steud.
  • Carex venusta var. glabra L.H.Bailey
  • Carex venusta var. minor Boeckeler
  • Carex venusta var. oblita (Steud.) Kük.
  • Carex venusta var. venusta

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.