Fimbristylis caroliniana(Lam.) Fernald

Carolina fimbry

WFO wfo-0000419242 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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.

Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. a Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-14 / obs. 157475563
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. b Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147112243
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jonathan Layman
fig. c Jonathan Layman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129714166
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. d Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157475569
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. e Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147112281
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jonathan Layman
fig. f Jonathan Layman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129714185
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. g Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92380972
Fimbristylis caroliniana, photographed by Jay Horn
fig. h Jay Horn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51074588

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Fimbristylis caroliniana is native: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Bahamas, Cuba, Turks-Caicos Is. AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMarylandMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestMississippiNew JerseyNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginiaCuba DelawareBahamasTurks-Caicos Is.
Native distribution of Fimbristylis caroliniana, 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
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Mississippi MSI
New Jersey NWJ
North Carolina NCA
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI

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 7 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.

  • Fimbristylis caroliniana f. caroliniana
  • Fimbristylis caroliniana f. eucycla (Fernald) Fernald
  • Fimbristylis caroliniana f. pycnostachya (Fernald) Fernald
  • Fimbristylis harperi Britton
  • Fimbristylis puberula f. eucycla Fernald
  • Fimbristylis puberula f. pycnostachya Fernald
  • Scirpus carolinianus Lam.

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.

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