Carex cherokeensis

Classification	Monocots
Family	Cyperaceae
Family (Traditional)	Cyperaceae
Genus	Carex
Species:	Carex cherokeensis Schwein.
Common Name	Cherokee Sedge
Growth Habit	graminoid
Plant Notes	**
Characteristics	Armaments: No; Milky Sap: No; Photosynthetic: Yes; Stipules: No; Woody Herbaceous: Herbaceous; Natural Area Presence: CCNMP; Natural Area Presence: GILES; Natural Area Presence: GRSM; Natural Area Presence: LC; Natural Area Presence: LGS; Natural Area Presence: LULA; Natural Area Presence: NCCGSNA; Natural Area Presence: TRG; Duration: Perennial; General Ecology: Terrestrial; Growth Habit: graminoid; Moisture Requirements: Sub-xeric; Moisture Requirements: Dry-mesic; Moisture Requirements: Mesic; Moisture Requirements: Mesic-Hydric; Moisture Requirements: Hydric; Moisture Requirements: Wetland; Region of Origin: North America; Reproductive Phenology: April; Reproductive Phenology: May; Reproductive Phenology: June; Leaf Arrangement: alternate; Leaf Complexity: simple; Leaf Dissection: 0; Leaf Fragrance: No; Leaf Persistance: Deciduous; Leaf Petiole Type: sessile; Leaf Rank: 3-ranked; Leaf Type: grass-like; Leaf Venation: parallel; Leaflet Margins: entire; Leaflet Number: 0; Anther Type: Basifixed; Base Flower Color: Brown (incl. Maroon); Base Flower Color: Green; Fruit Dehiscence: No; Fruit Type: Achene; Fruit Wet/Dry: Dry; Hypanthium Present: No; Ovary Position: Superior; Overall Flower Symmetry: N/A; Perianth Present: No; Petal Fusion: N/A; Pistil Complexity: Compound; Pistil Number: 1; Placentation Type: Basal; Sepal Fusion: N/A; Sepal Number: 0; Sporangium Arrangement: N/A; Stamen Number: 3; Tepal Fusion: N/A; Tepal Number: 0
C value	3
Status	Native; AGCP (FACW), EMP (FACW) (NWPL); TN[SNR] KY[S1?] (State Rank); G4G5 (Global Rank)
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Species Distribution Map

This species has been reported in the counties highlighted in the interactive distribution map below. Click on a county to display the its name. Click the question mark icon () to view additional information about the ecoregions shown. In the map legend, there are links to toggle the visibility of the ecoregions and/or their labels. In addition, clicking on an ecoregion name will highlight that region on the map.

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Ecoregions

Southeastern Plains
- Blackland Prarie
Blue Ridge Mountains
Ridge and Valley
Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland Mountains
Allegheny Plateau

Interior Plateau
- Bluegrass Region
- Nashville Basin
- Pennyroyal Karst Plain
- Western Highland Rim
- Eastern Highland Rim

Interior River Valleys and Hills
- Shawnee / Caseyville Hills
Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Mississippi Valley Loess Plains
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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort.

Counties included on distribution map: Trigg (KY), Bedford (TN), Blount (TN), Bradley (TN), Carroll (TN), Cheatham (TN), Coffee (TN), Cumberland (TN), Davidson (TN), Decatur (TN), DeKalb (TN), Franklin (TN), Giles (TN), Greene (TN), Hamilton (TN), Knox (TN), Lauderdale (TN), Marion (TN), Marshall (TN), Maury (TN), Meigs (TN), Montgomery (TN), Morgan (TN), Polk (TN), Putnam (TN), Rhea (TN), Rutherford (TN), Sevier (TN), Shelby (TN), Unicoi (TN), Wilson (TN)

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: APSC, BEREA, BOON, EKY, ETSU, HTTU, KNK, MEM, MTSU, TENN, UCHT, UOS, VDB

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1972 - 2018

Accession No. (click for full details)	County	State	Coll. Date	Collector & Collection No.	Herbarium & Herbarium Name Used
BEREA003324	Rutherford	Tennessee			BEREA Carex cherokeensis
N/A	Unicoi	Tennessee	24 May 2014	Frosty Levy	ETSU Carex cherokeensis
ETSU001704	Davidson	Tennessee			ETSU Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047167	Shelby	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047154	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047173	Wilson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047121	Cumberland	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047170	Shelby	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047145	Meigs	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047129	DeKalb	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047155	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004202	Marion	Tennessee	21 Apr 1999	John Beck 3188	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
APSC0037505	Shelby	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0064785	Montgomery	Tennessee	01 May 2009	Dwayne Estes	APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0037502	Hamilton	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047162	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047123	Cumberland	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047138	Hamilton	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047150	Morgan	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047131	Franklin	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047147	Meigs	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047130	Franklin	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004200	Coffee	Tennessee	01 Jun 2010	E. Blyveis 53	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
APSC0037503	Rutherford	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0079731	Rutherford	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0110032	Cheatham	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
UCHT038613	Wilson	Tennessee			UCHT Carex cherokeensis
UCHT038618	Davidson	Tennessee			UCHT Carex cherokeensis
UOS06687	Franklin	Tennessee	02 Jun 2010	Katie Qualls	UOS Carex cherokeensis
HTTU036529	Putnam	Tennessee			HTTU Carex cherokeensis
ETSU001705	Davidson	Tennessee			ETSU Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047141	Lauderdale	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047142	Marion	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047135	Hamilton	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047163	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047149	Meigs	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047172	Wilson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047152	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047159	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047125	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047140	Knox	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004199	Marion	Tennessee	13 May 2011	E. Blyveis 701	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004204	Hamilton	Tennessee	01 May 2001	V. E. McNeilus 01-143	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
UCHT038616	Polk	Tennessee			UCHT Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0245386	Sevier	Tennessee	27 Apr 1995	Milo Pyne 95-035	TENN Carex cherokeensis
31234100051158	Bradley	Tennessee	03 May 1980	Henry R. DeSelm	EKY Carex cherokeensis
31234100051166	Sevier	Tennessee	23 Apr 2009	C.J. Rothfels 2794	EKY Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047156	Rhea	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047137	Hamilton	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047132	Franklin	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047133	Giles	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047169	Shelby	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047168	Shelby	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047143	Marion	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047124	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047157	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047127	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004205	Hamilton	Tennessee	09 May 1994	Russel Campbell 133	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
APSC0069087	Trigg	Kentucky			APSC Carex cherokeensis
N/A	Sevier	Tennessee	23 Apr 2009	C. J. Rothfels 2794	EKY Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047166	Sevier	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004197	Marion	Tennessee	28 Apr 2009	E. Blyveis 216	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
APSC0093483	Montgomery	Tennessee	05 May 2018	Mason Brock	APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0037508	Rutherford	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
APSC0107025	Wilson	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
ETSU001703	Unicoi	Tennessee	08 May 2014	Frosty Levy	ETSU Carex cherokeensis
31973000009882	Blount	Tennessee			KNK Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047171	Shelby	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047139	Knox	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047148	Meigs	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047158	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047153	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004198	Marion	Tennessee	07 May 2010	E. Blyveis 277	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004201	Marion	Tennessee	20 Apr 1998	John Beck 1557	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
APSC0040750	Maury	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
HTTU035693	Putnam	Tennessee			HTTU Carex cherokeensis
HTTU036528	Putnam	Tennessee			HTTU Carex cherokeensis
HTTU036572	Putnam	Tennessee			HTTU Carex cherokeensis
UCHT038614	Wilson	Tennessee			UCHT Carex cherokeensis
MEM009197	Blount	Tennessee	17 May 1973	Raymond Athey s.n.	MEM Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047134	Greene	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047165	Sevier	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047160	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047151	Polk	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047126	Davidson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047119	Bradley	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047161	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
UCHT004203	Marion	Tennessee	26 May 1983	Edwin Bridges 300	UCHT Carex cherokeensis
006346	Carroll	Tennessee			BOON Carex cherokeensis
006347	Sevier	Tennessee			BOON Carex cherokeensis
APSC0037500	Marion	Tennessee			APSC Carex cherokeensis
MTSU003382	Rutherford	Tennessee	06 May 1987	Landon E. McKinney	MTSU Carex cherokeensis
UOS06688	Franklin	Tennessee	16 Apr 2006	Jon Evans	UOS Carex cherokeensis
MEM007515	Shelby	Tennessee	16 Apr 1972	John E. Thompson Jr. 766	MEM Carex cherokeensis
31973000009883	Shelby	Tennessee			KNK Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047144	Marshall	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047117	Bedford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047122	Cumberland	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047146	Meigs	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047118	Bradley	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047128	Decatur	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047164	Rutherford	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047120	Cumberland	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0047136	Hamilton	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
MTSU016240	Rutherford	Tennessee	23 Apr 2008	Emily Burkey 39	MTSU Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0245297	Wilson	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
TENN-V-0244499	Decatur	Tennessee			TENN Carex cherokeensis
BRIT236623	Polk	Tennessee			VDB Carex cherokeensis

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