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Cactaceae
- Escobaria viviparaEscobaria viviparaEscobaria vivipara is a species of cactus known by several common names, including spinystar, and viviparous foxtail cactus. It is native to North America, where certain varieties can be found from Mexico to Canada. Most are limited to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts...
— foxtail pincushion cactus - Opuntia fragilisOpuntia fragilisOpuntia fragilis, known by the common names brittle prickly pear and little prickly pear, is a prickly pear cactus native to much of North America. It occurs in several Canadian provinces. It is known from farther north than any other cactus, occurring at as close as 8°south of the Arctic Circle, ...
— brittle prickly-pear
- Opuntia humifusa — eastern prickly-pear
- Opuntia polyacanthaOpuntia polyacanthaOpuntia polyacantha is a common species of cactus known by the common names plains pricklypear, hairspine cactus, panhandle pricklypear, and starvation pricklypear. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in western Canada, the central and western United States, and northern...
— panhandle prickly-pear
Callitrichaceae
- Callitriche hermaphroditica — autumnal water-starwort
- Callitriche heterophylla — large water-starwort
- Callitriche marginataCallitriche marginataCallitriche marginata is a species of aquatic plant known by the common name winged water starwort.It is native to the west coast of North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in and around vernal pools...
— winged water-starwort
- Callitriche palustris — vernal water-starwort
- Callitriche terrestrisCallitriche terrestrisCallitriche terrestris is a species of plant in the Callitrichaceae family found in Canada and in the eastern United States....
— terrestrial water-starwort
Calypogeiaceae
- Calypogeia fissa
- Calypogeia integristipula
- Calypogeia muelleriana
- Calypogeia neesiana
- Calypogeia sphagnicola
- Calypogeia suecica
- Calypogeia trichomanis
- Metacalypogeia schusterana
CampanulaceaeCampanulaceaeThe family Campanulaceae , of the order Asterales, contains about 2000 species in 70 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap...
- Asyneuma prenanthoides — California harebell
- Campanula aparinoides — marsh bellflower
- Campanula aurita — Yukon bellflower
- Campanula lasiocarpa — common Alaska harebell
- Campanula parryi — Parry's northern harebell
- Campanula rotundifolia — American harebell
- Campanula scouleriCampanula scouleriCampanula scouleri is a species of bellflower known by the common names pale bellflower and Scouler's harebell. It is native to the mountains of western North America from northern California to Alaska. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect or leaning stem 20 to 30 centimeters long...
— Scouler's bellflower - Campanula unifloraCampanula unifloraThe arctic bellflower is a short and slender rhizomatous perennial in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. It is distributed in arctic North America, including the Rocky Mountains and Greenland, in the Asian part of Beringia and in Iceland, Svalbard, the Scandes Mountains and Novaja Zemlja.The...
— Arctic harebell - Campanulastrum americanumCampanulastrum americanumAmerican bellflower is a tall bellflower native to eastern North America from the Great Lakes region south to Florida and from the Dakotas east to New York. Its flowers are light blue to violet and usually form in elongated clusters. It is an unusual bellflower in that its flowers are usually...
— tall bellflower - Downingia elegansDowningia elegansDowningia elegans is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name elegant calicoflower. This showy wildflower is native to western North America from California to British Columbia, where it is a resident of meadows and vernal pool ecosystems. This annual grows on...
— common downingia - Downingia laetaDowningia laetaDowningia laeta is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common name Great Basin calicoflower. This showy wildflower is native to western North America from California to Saskatchewan, where it is a resident of riverbanks, ponds, and vernal pool ecosystems. This annual...
— Great Basin downingia
- Githopsis specularioidesGithopsis specularioidesGithopsis specularioides is a flowering plant known by the common name common bluecup. It is an annual herb which bears very small tubular flowers with white throats and five pointed purple petals. It is found on the west coast of North America from California to British Columbia.-External links:***...
— common blue-cup - Heterocodon rariflorum — western pearl-flower
- Lobelia cardinalisLobelia cardinalisLobelia cardinalis is a species of Lobelia native to the Americas, from southeastern Canada south through the eastern and southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America to northern Colombia...
— cardinal-flower - Lobelia dortmannaLobelia dortmannaLobelia dortmanna is a species of Lobelia native to cool temperate regions of northern Europe and northern North America .It is a stoloniferous herbaceous...
— water lobelia - Lobelia inflataLobelia inflataLobelia inflata is a species of Lobelia native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada south through the eastern United States to Alabama and west to Kansas.-Growth:...
— Indian-tobacco - Lobelia kalmiiLobelia kalmiiLobelia kalmii is a species of flowering plant with a distribution primarily across Canada and the northern United States in temperate and boreal regions...
— Kalm's lobelia - Lobelia siphiliticaLobelia siphiliticaThe Great Blue Lobelia is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. Growing up to a meter tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late...
— great blue lobelia - Lobelia spicata — palespike lobelia
- Lobelia x speciosa
- Triodanis perfoliataTriodanis perfoliataTriodanis perfoliata, the Clasping Venus's Looking Glass, is an annual herb native to North America. It is a flowering plant belonging to the family Campanulaceae.- Description :...
— claspingleaf Venus'-looking-glass
CannabaceaeCannabaceaeCannabaceae are a small family of flowering plants. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis , Humulus and Celtis...
- Celtis occidentalisCeltis occidentalisCeltis occidentalis, commonly known as the Common hackberry, is a medium-size deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry...
— common hackberry - Celtis tenuifoliaCeltis tenuifoliaCeltis tenuifolia, the Dwarf Hackberry or Georgia Hackberry is a shrub or small tree 2 to 12 meters high. It is native to eastern North America, but is very uncommon north of the Ohio River...
— dwarf hackberry - Humulus lupulusHumulus lupulusHumulus lupulus is a species of Humulus in the Cannabaceae family.Common hop is a dioecious, perennial herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to the cold-hardy rhizome in autumn...
— common hop
CapparaceaeCapparaceaeCapparaceae , commonly known as the Caper family, is a family of plants in order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, it contains 33 genera and about 700 species...
- Cleome serrulata — bee spiderflower
- Polanisia dodecandraPolanisia dodecandraPolanisia dodecandra is a species of flowering plant in the Cleome family, Cleomaceae, known by the common name redwhisker clammyweed, or simply clammyweed, although there are other Polanisia species called 'clammyweed'. It is an annual plant that is found in many types of habitat throughout much...
— common clammyweed
CaprifoliaceaeCaprifoliaceaeThe Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.They are mostly...
- Diervilla lonicera — northern bush-honeysuckle
- Linnaea borealis — twinflower
- Lonicera caeruleaLonicera caeruleaLonicera caerulea is a honeysuckle native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere....
— western honeysuckle - Lonicera canadensisLonicera canadensisLonicera canadensis is a flowering deciduous, perennial, phanerophytic shrub which is monoclinous and grows 1–2 m tall. It is the only member of its genus with hairless leaf structures. It typically flowers from the last week of April until the third or fourth week of May...
— American fly-honeysuckle - Lonicera ciliosaLonicera ciliosaLonicera ciliosa is a honeysuckle native to forests of western North America. A deciduous shrub growing to tall with hollow twigs, the leaves are opposite, oval, long with the last pair on each twig merged to form a disk...
— orange honeysuckle - Lonicera dioica — mountain honeysuckle
- Lonicera hirsuta — hairy honeysuckle
- Lonicera hispidulaLonicera hispidulaThe perennial vine Lonicera hispidula is a species of honeysuckle known as pink honeysuckle and, less often, California honeysuckle. It is a low-elevation woodlands shrub—vine found on the West Coast of the United States...
— California honeysuckle - Lonicera involucrataLonicera involucrataLonicera involucrata is a species of honeysuckle native to northern and western North America, from southern Alaska east across boreal Canada to Quebec, and south through the western United States to California, and to Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico...
— four-line honeysuckle - Lonicera oblongifolia — swamp fly-honeysuckle
- Lonicera reticulata — grape honeysuckle
- Lonicera utahensis — Utah honeysuckle
- Lonicera villosa — mountain fly-honeysuckle
- Sambucus nigraSambucus nigraSambucus nigra is a species complex of elder native to most of Europe.It is most commonly called Elder, Elderberry, Black Elder, European Elder, European Elderberry, European Black Elderberry, Common Elder, or Elder Bush when distinction from other species of Sambucus is needed...
— common elderberry - Sambucus racemosaSambucus racemosaSambucus racemosa is a species of elderberry known by the common name Red Elderberry. It is native to Europe, temperate Asia, and north and central North America. It grows in riparian environments, woodlands, and other habitat, generally in moist areas. This often treelike shrub grows 2 to 6 meters...
— red elderberry
- Symphoricarpos albusSymphoricarpos albusSymphoricarpos albus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name common snowberry. It is native to North America, where it occurs across much of Canada and the northern United States. It grows in shady and moist mountain and forest habitat, in woodlands and on...
— snowberry - Symphoricarpos hesperius — spreading snowberry
- Symphoricarpos occidentalisSymphoricarpos occidentalisSymphoricarpos occidentalis, commonly called Western snowberry or Wolfberry, is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family...
— northern snowberry - Symphoricarpos oreophilus — mountain snowberry
- Triosteum angustifoliumTriosteum angustifoliumTriosteum angustifolium, commonly known as yellow horse gentian , is a species of flowering plant of the Caprifoliaceae family. It is found Eastern North America, primarily in Limestone regions....
— yellowleaf tinker's-weed - Triosteum aurantiacum — coffee tinker's-weed
- Triosteum perfoliatum — perfoliate tinker's-weed
- Viburnum acerifoliumViburnum acerifoliumViburnum acerifolium is a species of Viburnum, native to eastern North America from southwestern Quebec and Ontario south to northern Florida and eastern Texas....
— mapleleaf viburnum - Viburnum eduleViburnum eduleViburnum edule, the squashberry, mooseberry, pembina, pimbina, highbush cranberry, lowbush cranberry or moosomin in Cree language, is a small shrub species.-See also:* Trees of Canada* List of Canadian plants by family C...
— squashberry - Viburnum lantanoidesViburnum lantanoidesViburnum lantanoides is a perennial shrub of the family Adoxaceae growing 2–4 meters high with pendulous branches that take root where they touch the ground...
— alderleaf viburnum - Viburnum lentagoViburnum lentagoViburnum lentago is a species of Viburnum native to the northeastern and midwestern United States, and in southern Canada from New Brunswick west to southeastern Saskatchewan. Isolated populations are found in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Appalachian Mountains as far south as Kentucky...
— nannyberry - Viburnum nudumViburnum nudumViburnum nudum is a plant in the muskroot family, Adoxaceae.-Description:...
— possum-haw viburnum - Viburnum opulusViburnum opulusViburnum opulus is a species of Viburnum, native to Europe and Asia. Some botanists also treat the closely related North American species Viburnum trilobum as a variety of it , or a subspecies, Viburnum opulus subsp...
— guelder-rose viburnum - Viburnum rafinesquianum — downy arrowwood
- Viburnum recognitum — northern arrowwood
CaryophyllaceaeCaryophyllaceaeThe Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae and Polygonaceae...
- Arenaria capillaris — fescue sandwort
- Arenaria congestaArenaria congestaArenaria congesta is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name ballhead sandwort. It is native to western North America from central Canada to the American southwest.-Description:...
— capitate sandwort - Arenaria humifusa — creeping sandwort
- Arenaria longipedunculata — low sandwort
- Cerastium alpinumCerastium alpinumCerastium alpinum, commonly called Alpine mouse-ear chickweed or Alpine chickweed is a species of mat forming perennial plant. It is native from Greenland, Canada and northern Europe It is grown as a rock garden subject for its many small white flowers and silver haired stems and foliage. There...
— alpine chickweed - Cerastium arvenseCerastium arvenseCerastium arvense is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name field chickweed. It is a widespread species, occurring throughout Europe and North America, as well as parts of South America. It is a variable species. There are several subspecies, but the number and...
— mouse-ear chickweed - Cerastium beeringianum — Bering Sea chickweed
- Cerastium brachypodum — mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium cerastioides — starwort chickweed
- Cerastium fischerianum — Fischer's chickweed
- Cerastium maximum — great chickweed
- Cerastium nigrescens — black mouse-ear chickweed
- Cerastium nutans — nodding chickweed
- Cerastium regelii — Regel's chickweed
- Dianthus repens — carnation
- Honckenya peploidesHonckenya peploidesHonckenya peploides or Sea sandwort or Seaside Sandplant is the only species in the genus Honckenya of the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae. It is often spelled "Honkenya". It has a circumboreal distribution....
— seabeach sandwort - Lychnis alpina — alpine campion
- Minuartia arctica — Arctic stitchwort
- Minuartia austromontana — Columbian stitchwort
- Minuartia biflora — mountain stitchwort
- Minuartia dawsonensis — rock stitchwort
- Minuartia elegans — Ross' stitchwort
- Minuartia groenlandicaMinuartia groenlandicaMinuartia groenlandica, the Greenland stitchwort or mountain stitchwort, is a rare perennial which grows low to the ground in clumps linked together at the bottom. It has three to five pairs of leaves in a linear opposite pattern along the length of the slender stem. The main stem breaks into one...
— mountain sandwort - Minuartia litorea
- Minuartia macrocarpa — longpod stitchwort
- Minuartia marcescens — serpentine stitchwort
- Minuartia michauxii — Michaux's stitchwort
- Minuartia nuttalliiMinuartia nuttalliiMinuartia nuttallii is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names Nuttall's sandwort and brittle sandwort. It is native to western North America from southwestern Canada to California and Nevada, where it grows in several types of habitat, including rocky and barren...
— Nuttall's stitchwort - Minuartia obtusilobaMinuartia obtusilobaMinuartia obtusiloba is a perennial alpine herb known by the common names alpine sandwort and twinflower stitchwort. It is native to the mountains of western North America from the High Sierra of California to the Colorado Rockies north to Alaska. Its range may extend into far eastern Russia...
— alpine stitchwort - Minuartia pusillaMinuartia pusillaMinuartia pusilla is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names annual sandwort and dwarf stitchwort. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Utah, where it grows in mountain forests, chaparral, and other habitat. It is a petite...
— dwarf stitchwort - Minuartia rossii — Ross' stitchwort
- Minuartia rubellaMinuartia rubellaMinuartia rubella is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by several common names, including beautiful sandwort, Arctic sandwort, and boreal stitchwort...
— boreal stitchwort - Minuartia strictaMinuartia strictaMinuartia stricta is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names bog stitchwort and rock sandwort. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout much of the northernmost Northern Hemisphere from the lower Arctic into the alpine climates of mountainous areas...
— rock sandwort - Minuartia tenella — slender stitchwort
- Minuartia yukonensis — Yukon stitchwort
- Moehringia lateriflora — grove sandwort
- Moehringia macrophyllaMoehringia macrophyllaMoehringia macrophylla is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name largeleaf sandwort. It is native to parts of eastern and western North America, where it can be found in moist, shady habitat types, such as mountain forests. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb...
— largeleaf sandwort - Paronychia canadensis — forked nailwort
- Paronychia fastigiata — cluster-stemmed nailwort
- Paronychia sessiliflora — low nailwort
- Sagina caespitosa — tufted pearlwort
- Sagina decumbensSagina decumbensSagina decumbens is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names trailing pearlwort and western pearlwort. It is native to several areas of North America, where it can be found in many types of habitat. It is a small annual herb producing a threadlike green or purplish...
— small-flowered pearlwort - Sagina maximaSagina maximaSagina maxima is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name stickystem pearlwort. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to California, where it can be found in many types of sandy and rocky coastal habitat. It is a small, fleshy perennial herb...
— sticky-stem pearlwort - Sagina nivalis — snow pearlwort
- Sagina nodosaSagina nodosaSagina nodosa is a species in the genus Sagina, native to northern Europe. It is a low-growing plant up to 15 cm tall, with paired leaves up to 1 cm long. The flowers are 5–10 mm diameter, with five white petals....
— knotted pearlwort - Sagina saginoidesSagina saginoidesSagina saginoides is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name arctic pearlwort. It has a Circumboreal distribution; it can be found throughout the northern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in subalpine and alpine climates and other mountainous habitat...
— Arctic pearlwort - Silene acaulis — moss campion
- Silene antirrhinaSilene antirrhinaSilene antirrhina is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name sleepy catchfly. It is native to the Americas, where it is widespread throughout North America and parts of South America. It is known in Europe as an introduced species. It can be found in a wide range of...
— sleepy catchfly - Silene douglasiiSilene douglasiiSilene douglasii is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name Douglas' catchfly. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in several habitat types, including forests, woodlands, and coastal scrub...
— Douglas' campion - Silene drummondii — Drummond's campion
- Silene involucrata — Arctic catchfly
- Silene menziesiiSilene menziesiiSilene menziesii is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name Menzies' campion. It is native to western North America from Alaska through the western half of Canada to the southwestern United States. It can be found in many types of habitat and it is quite common in...
— Menzies' pink - Silene parryi — Parry's campion
- Silene repens — creeping catchfly
- Silene scouleriSilene scouleriSilene scouleri is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name simple campion. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado. There are at least three subspecies which all vary in size, shape, habitat preference, and distribution....
— Scouler's catchfly - Silene sorensenis — Sorensen's catchfly
- Silene spaldingiiSilene spaldingiiSilene spaldingii is a rare species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names Spalding's catchfly and Spalding's campion. It is native to eastern Washington, and eastern Oregon in the United States, as well as northern Idaho and northern Montana, where its distribution extends...
— Spalding's campion - Silene taimyrensisSilene taimyrensisSilene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly, is a herbaceous perennial in the Caryophyllaceae, or pink family. It is native to the Yukon and British Columbia in Canada and to Alaska. It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to...
— Taimyr catchfly - Silene tayloriae — Peel River catchfly
- Silene uralensis — apetalous catchfly
- Silene x hampeana
- Spergularia canadensisSpergularia canadensisSpergularia canadensis is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name Canadian sandspurry. It is native to North America where it is known from mainly coastal habitat along the coastline of Canada and northern parts of the United States, from Alaska to northern...
— Canada sandspurry - Spergularia macrothecaSpergularia macrothecaSpergularia macrotheca is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name sticky sandspurry. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it grows in many types of moist coastal and inland habitat, often in alkaline and saline...
— beach sandspurry - Spergularia salina — saltmarsh sandspurry
- Stellaria alaskana — Alaska starwort
- Stellaria alsine — trailing stitchwort
- Stellaria americana — American stitchwort
- Stellaria borealisStellaria borealisStellaria borealis is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name boreal starwort. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout northern areas of the Northern Hemisphere. It occurs in many types of moist and wet habitat, including marshes, riverbanks,...
— northern stitchwort - Stellaria calycanthaStellaria calycanthaStellaria calycantha is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name northern starwort. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California and New Mexico, as well as eastern Russia. It occurs in subalpine and alpine climates, in many...
— northern stitchwort - Stellaria ciliatosepala — tundra stitchwort
- Stellaria crassifoliaStellaria crassifoliaStellaria crassifolia is a plant of the stellaria genus and found in Iceland. Its common Icelandish name is "Stjörnuarfi" ....
— fleshy stitchwort - Stellaria crassipes — tundra starwort
- Stellaria crispaStellaria crispaStellaria crispa is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names curled starwort and crisp starwort. It is native to western North America from Alaska south to California and Wyoming, where it grows in moist, shady habitat such as deep forests and streambanks...
— crimped stitchwort - Stellaria dicranoides — matted starwort
- Stellaria humifusaStellaria humifusaStellaria humifusa or Saltmarsh Starwort is known in Iceland as "Lágarfi" , and grows only in beach areas....
— creeping sandwort - Stellaria longifoliaStellaria longifoliaStellaria longifolia is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name longleaf starwort. It is native to much of the northern half of the Northern Hemisphere, occurring throughout northern Europe and North America. It grows in many types of moist habitat, including...
— longleaf stitchwort - Stellaria longipesStellaria longipesStellaria longipes is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name longstalk starwort. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring throughout the northernmost latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in a wide variety of habitat types, including tundra and taiga...
— long-stalked stitchwort - Stellaria nitensStellaria nitensStellaria nitens is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names shining starwort and shiny chickweed. It is native to western North America, including British Columbia, Alberta, and the western United States, its distribution extending into Mexico at least as far as...
— shiny stitchwort - Stellaria obtusaStellaria obtusaStellaria obtusa is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names Rocky Mountain chickweed, blunt-sepaled starwort, and obtuse stellaria...
— Rocky Mountain stitchwort - Stellaria umbellataStellaria umbellataStellaria umbellata is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names umbellate starwort and umbrella starwort. It is native to western North America from Alaska and northwestern Canada to the southwestern United States, as well as parts of Asia, including Siberia. It...
— umbellate stitchwort - Wilhelmsia physodes — merkia
CelastraceaeCelastraceaeThe Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...
- Celastrus scandensCelastrus scandensCelastrus scandens, commonly called American Bittersweet or Bittersweet, is a species of staff vines that blooms mostly in June and is commonly found on rich, well-drained soils of woodlands. It has a sturdy perennial vine that may have twining, woody stems that are or longer and an inch or more...
— climbing bittersweet - Euonymus atropurpureus — wahoo
- Euonymus obovatusEuonymus obovatusEuonymus obovatus is a trailing, woodland groundcover plant of the Celastraceae family, which is native to eastern North America in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada.-External links:**...
— running strawberry-bush
- Euonymus occidentalisEuonymus occidentalisEuonymus occidentalis is a species of spindle tree known by the common name western burning bush. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it is the only member of its genus growing wild. This is a shrub or small tree reaching maximum heights of anywhere from...
— western strawberry-bush - Paxistima myrsinitesPaxistima myrsinitesPaxistima myrsinites is a species of shrub in the bittersweet family known by the common name Oregon boxleaf, or Oregon boxwood. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern Mexico to the Rocky Mountains, where it grows in forests, often in the understory. It is a low...
— Oregon boxleaf
Cephaloziaceae
- Cephalozia affinis
- Cephalozia bicuspidata
- Cephalozia catenulata
- Cephalozia connivens
- Cephalozia lacinulata
- Cephalozia leucantha
- Cephalozia loitlesbergeri
- Cephalozia lunulifolia
- Cephalozia macounii
- Cephalozia macrostachya
- Cephalozia pleniceps
- Cladopodiella fluitans — cladopodiella moss
- Cladopodiella francisci
- Hygrobiella laxifolia
- Nowellia curvifolia
- Pleuroclada albescens
- Schofieldia monticola
Cephaloziellaceae
- Cephaloziella arctica
- Cephaloziella brinkmani
- Cephaloziella divaricata
- Cephaloziella elachista
- Cephaloziella hampeana
- Cephaloziella massalongi
- Cephaloziella phyllacantha
- Cephaloziella rubella
- Cephaloziella spinigera
- Cephaloziella subdentata
- Cephaloziella turneri
- Cephaloziella uncinata
Ceratophyllaceae
- Ceratophyllum demersumCeratophyllum demersumCeratophyllum demersum is a species of Ceratophyllum. It is a submerged, free-floating aquatic plant, native to North America but nowadays having a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and tropical regions...
— common hornwort
- Ceratophyllum echinatumCeratophyllum echinatumCeratophyllum echinatum , commonly called Spineless Hornwort, is an aquatic perennial plant of the family Ceratophyllum. It can be found in ponds and lakes. It is principally an eastern North American species and the only species of its genus endemic to North America. -Description:Ceratophyllum...
— prickly hornwort
ChenopodiaceaeChenopodiaceaeChenopodiaceae were a family of flowering plants, also called the Goosefoot Family. They are now included within family Amaranthaceae. The vast majority of Chenopods are weeds, and many are salt and drought tolerant. A few food crops also belong to the family: spinach, beets, chard, quinoa, and...
- Atriplex acadiensis — maritime saltbush
- Atriplex alaskensis — Alaska orache
- Atriplex argenteaAtriplex argenteaAtriplex argentea is a species of saltbush known by the common names silverscale saltbush and silver orache. It is native to western North America from southern Canada to northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat, generally on saline soils.-Description:Atriplex argentea is an annual...
— silvery saltbush - Atriplex canescensAtriplex canescensAtriplex canescens, Chamiso, Chamiza, Four wing saltbush, Four-wing saltbush, and Fourwing saltbush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the Amaranthaceae family, which is native to the western and mid-western United States....
— four-wing saltbush - Atriplex falcata — sickle saltbush
- Atriplex franktonii — Frankton's saltbush
- Atriplex gardneri — Gardner's saltbush
- Atriplex glabriuscula — northeastern saltbush
- Atriplex gmelinii — Gmelin's saltbush
- Atriplex littoralis — tropical saltbush
- Atriplex nudicaulis — Baltic saltbush
- Atriplex nuttallii — Nuttall's saltbush
- Atriplex patulaAtriplex patulaAtriplex patula L. is a ruderal, circumboreal species of annual herbaceous plants in the genus Atriplex naturalized in many temperate regions....
— halberd-leaf orache - Atriplex powellii — Powell's saltbush
- Atriplex prostrata — creeping saltbush
- Atriplex subspicataAtriplex subspicataAtriplex subspicata is a species of saltbush known by the common names saline saltbush and halberdleaf orach. It is native to much of the United States and southern Canada, where it most often grows in saline and alkaline soils.-Description:...
— orache - Atriplex truncataAtriplex truncataAtriplex truncata is a species of saltbush known by the common names wedgeleaf saltbush, wedgescale, and wedge orach.It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California and to New Mexico...
— wedge-leaved saltbush - Atriplex x aptera
- Chenopodium albumChenopodium albumChenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium.Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed...
— Missouri goosefoot - Chenopodium atrovirensChenopodium atrovirensChenopodium atrovirens is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names pinyon goosefoot and dark goosefoot....
— dark goosefoot - Chenopodium berlandieriChenopodium berlandieriChenopodium berlandieri, also known by the common names pitseed goosefoot, huauzontle, and lambsquarters, is an annual herbaceous plant in the goosefoot family....
— pitseed goosefoot - Chenopodium capitatumChenopodium capitatumStrawberry Blite is an edible annual plant, also known as Blite Goosefoot, Strawberry Goosefoot, Strawberry Spinach, Indian Paint, and Indian Ink....
— strawberry goosefoot - Chenopodium desiccatumChenopodium desiccatumChenopodium desiccatum is a species of flowering plant in the goosefoot family known by the common name aridland goosefoot.It is native to parts of western North America, including sections of the Western United States and southern Western Canada...
— narrowleaf goosefoot - Chenopodium foggii — Fogg's goosefoot
- Chenopodium fremontiiChenopodium fremontiiChenopodium fremontii is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name Frémont's goosefoot. Both the species' specific epithet, and the common name derive from the 19th century western pioneer John C. Frémont....
— Fremont's goosefoot - Chenopodium hiansChenopodium hiansChenopodium hians is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names hians goosefoot and gaping goosefoot...
— Hian's goosefoot - Chenopodium humile — marshland goosefoot
- Chenopodium incanum — mealy goosefoot
- Chenopodium leptophyllumChenopodium leptophyllumChenopodium leptophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name narrowleaf goosefoot.It is native to much of western North America, where it is reported from Alaska to Texas and northern Mexico, and into central Canada...
— narrowleaf goosefoot - Chenopodium pratericolaChenopodium pratericolaChenopodium pratericola is a species of flowering plant in the goosefoot family known by the common name desert goosefoot.It is native to much of western and central North America, where it grows in many types of open habitat, such as sagebrush, often on alkaline soils.It is an annual herb growing...
— desert goosefoot - Chenopodium rubrumChenopodium rubrumChenopodium rubrum is a member of the genus Chenopodium, the goosefoots. It is native to North America and Eurasia.-External links:***...
— coastblite goosefoot - Chenopodium salinum — Rocky Mountain goosefoot
- Chenopodium simplex — giantseed goosefoot
- Chenopodium standleyanum — Standley's goosefoot
- Chenopodium subglabrum — smooth goosefoot
- Chenopodium watsonii — Watson's goosefoot
- Corispermum americanum — American bugseed
- Corispermum hookeri — Hooker's bugseed
- Corispermum ochotense — Okhotian bugseed
- Corispermum pallasii — Pallas' bugseed
- Corispermum villosum — hairy bugseed
- Cycloloma atriplicifolium — winged pigweed
- Endolepis dioica — Suckley's saltbush
- Krascheninnikovia lanataKrascheninnikovia lanataKrascheninnikovia lanata is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name Winterfat. It is native to much of western North America: from central Western Canada; through the Western United States; to Northern Mexico...
— winter-fat - Monolepis nuttallianaMonolepis nuttallianaMonolepis nuttalliana is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name Nuttall's povertyweed. It is native to North America, where it is widespread and common from Alaska to Mexico to New England. It can be found in many types of habitat, including disturbed areas,...
— Nuttall's poverty-weed - Salicornia borealis — boreal saltwort
- Salicornia maritima — jointed glasswort
- Salicornia rubra — western glasswort
- Salicornia virginicaSalicornia virginicaSalicornia virginica is a halophytic perennial dicot which grows in various zones of intertidal salt marshes and can be found in alkaline flats...
— Virginia glasswort - Sarcobatus vermiculatus — black greasewood
- Sarcocornia pacifica — Pacific glasswort
- Suaeda calceoliformisSuaeda calceoliformisSuaeda calceoliformis is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by several common names, including Pursh seepweed and horned sea-blite. It is native to North America, where it can be found across most of the continent except for parts of the American southeast...
— American sea-blite - Suaeda maritima — herbaceous seepweed
- Suaeda moquinii — shrubby seepweed
- Suaeda rolandii — Rolands' sea-blite
- Suckleya suckleyana — poison suckleya
CistaceaeCistaceaeThe Cistaceae is a small family of plants known for its beautiful shrubs, which are profusely covered by flowers at the time of blossom...
- Helianthemum bicknellii — plains frostweed
- Helianthemum canadense — Canada frostweed
- Hudsonia ericoides — golden-heather
- Hudsonia tomentosa — sand-heather
- Lechea intermedia — narrowleaf pinweed
- Lechea maritima — beach pinweed
- Lechea mucronata — hairy pinweed
- Lechea pulchella — Leggett's pinweed
- Lechea stricta — upright pinweed
- Lechea tenuifolia — slender pinweed
Cleveaceae
- Athalamia hyalina
- Peltolepis quadrata
- Sauteria alpina
Climaciaceae
- Climacium americanum — tree moss
- Climacium dendroides — tree climacium moss
ClusiaceaeClusiaceaeThe Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants formerly including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. It is primarily tropical...
- Hypericum anagalloidesHypericum anagalloidesHypericum anagalloides is a species of St. John's wort known by the common names Creeping St. John's-wort, tinker's penny and Bog St. John's-wort....
— tinker's-penny - Hypericum ascyron — great St. John's-wort
- Hypericum boreale — northern St. John's-wort
- Hypericum canadense — Canadian St. John's-wort
- Hypericum dissimulatum — disguised St. John's-wort
- Hypericum ellipticum — pale St. John's-wort
- Hypericum gentianoides — orange-grass St. John's-wort
- Hypericum kalmianum — Kalm's St. John's-wort
- Hypericum majus — larger Canadian St. John's-wort
- Hypericum mutilumHypericum mutilumHypericum mutilum is a species of St. John's wort known by the common name dwarf St. John's wort. It is native to parts of North America, and is present in other parts as an introduced species. It is an annual or perennial herb taking a multibranched erect form up to about 60 centimeters tall. The...
— slender St. John's-wort - Hypericum prolificum — shrubby St. John's-wort
- Hypericum punctatum — common St. John's-wort
- Hypericum scouleri — western St. John's-wort
- Hypericum sphaerocarpum — roundfruit St. John's-wort
- Triadenum fraseri — marsh St. John's-wort
- Triadenum virginicum — Virginia marsh St. John's-wort
CommelinaceaeCommelinaceaeCommelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with an estimated 650 species in 40 genera. Well known genera include...
- Tradescantia occidentalisTradescantia occidentalisTradescantia occidentalis is a plant in the dayflower family, Commelinaceae. It is listed as a threatened species in Canada....
— prairie spiderwort
- Tradescantia ohiensisTradescantia ohiensisTradescantia ohiensis is a species of Tradescantia native to much of the eastern United States. It is the most common species of Tradescantia in the wild in the United States....
— Ohio spiderwort
ConvolvulaceaeConvolvulaceaeConvolvulaceae, known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family, are a group of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species of mostly herbaceous vines, but also trees, shrubs and herbs.- Description :...
- Calystegia macounii — Macoun's bindweed
- Calystegia sepiumCalystegia sepiumCalystegia sepium is a species of bindweed, with a subcosmopolitan distribution throughout temperate Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia, northwestern Africa, and North America, and in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in Australia, and...
— hedge false bindweed - Calystegia silvaticaCalystegia silvaticaThe morning glory Calystegia silvatica is known by the common name giant bindweed. It is the largest species of bindweed and is a strong rampant climber....
— shortstalk false bindweed
- Calystegia soldanellaCalystegia soldanellaThe morning glory Calystegia soldanella is a species of bindweed known by the common names seashore false bindweed and beach morning glory...
— seashore bindweed - Calystegia spithamaea — low bindweed
- Ipomoea pandurataIpomoea pandurataIpomoea pandurata the Wild Potato Vine, Big-rooted Morning Glory or Man-of-the-Earth is a species of herbaceous perennial vine. Another common name is "manroot", but that typically refers to the quite unrelated gourd genus Marah.It is rarely cultivated but grows wild in North America appearing...
— bigroot morning-glory
CornaceaeCornaceaeCornaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. It contains approximately 110 species, mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen. Members of this family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in...
- Cornus alternifolia — alternate-leaf dogwood
- Cornus amomumCornus amomumCornus amomum is a species of dogwood native to eastern North America, from Ontario and Quebec south to Arkansas and Georgia. Also found in other parts of North America....
— silky dogwood - Cornus canadensisCornus canadensisCornus canadensis is a herbaceous member of the Cornaceae family...
— Canada bunchberry - Cornus drummondiiCornus drummondiiCornus drummondii, commonly known as the Roughleaf Dogwood, is a small deciduous tree that is native primarily to the Great Plains and Midwestern reigons of the United States. It is also found around the Mississippi River. It is uncommon in the wild, and is mostly found around forest borders...
— northern roughleaf dogwood - Cornus florida — flowering dogwood
- Cornus nuttallii — Pacific dogwood
- Cornus racemosa — grey dogwood
- Cornus rugosa — roundleaf dogwood
- Cornus sericea — silky dogwood
- Cornus suecicaCornus suecicaCornus suecica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cornus , native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia, and also locally in extreme northeastern and northwestern North America.These plants are herbaceous perennials growing to 5–15 cm tall, with few pairs of...
— Swedish dwarf dogwood - Cornus unalaschkensis — western dwarf dogwood
- Cornus x acadiensis
- Cornus x slavinii
CrassulaceaeCrassulaceaeCrassulaceae, or the orpine family, are a family of dicotyledons. They store water in their succulent leaves. They are found worldwide, but mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, typically in dry and/or cold areas where water may be scarce...
- Crassula aquaticaCrassula aquaticaCrassula aquatica is a succulent plant known by the common names water pygmyweed and common pygmyweed. It is an annual plant of salt marshes, vernal pools, wetlands, and other fresh to brackish water bodies. It is at least partially aquatic, living in areas which are submersed much of the time...
— water pygmyweed - Crassula connataCrassula connataCrassula connata is a succulent plant known by the common names sand pygmyweed and pygmy stonecrop. It is a very small plant which grows in patches on the ground, especially in rocky areas. It is also sometimes associated with vernal pool plant communities. The stems are a few centimeters in length...
— sand pygmyweed - Penthorum sedoides — ditch-stonecrop
- Rhodiola integrifoliaRhodiola integrifoliaRhodiola integrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common names western roseroot, king's crown, and ledge stonecrop. It is native to Eurasia and western North America, where it grows in mountainous habitat in subalpine and alpine climates, including meadows,...
— entire-leaf stonecrop - Rhodiola roseaRhodiola roseaRhodiola rosea is a plant in the Crassulaceae family that grows in cold regions of the world. These include much of the Arctic, the mountains of Central Asia, the Rocky Mountains, and mountainous parts of Europe, such as the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathian Mountains, Scandinavia, Iceland, Great...
— roseroot stonecrop - Sedum divergensSedum divergensSedum divergens, commonly called spreading stonecrop, Cascade stonecrop, and Pacific stonecrop, is a low growing flowering plant of the genus Sedum. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California. This plant is common in the lava beds of Northwest British Columbia where...
— spreading stonecrop
- Sedum lanceolatumSedum lanceolatumSedum lanceolatum is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common names lanceleaf stonecrop and spearleaf stonecrop....
— lanceleaf stonecrop - Sedum oreganumSedum oreganumSedum oreganum is a species of succulent plant of the genus Sedum. It grows along the Pacific Coast of North America from Alaska to far northern California. The plant, known by the common name Oregon stonecrop, grows in many types of rocky habitat, including coastal bluffs and cliffs and the talus...
— Oregon stonecrop - Sedum spathulifoliumSedum spathulifoliumSedum spathulifolium is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common name broadleaf stonecrop. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to southern California, where it can be found in many types of rocky habitat in coastal and inland hills and...
— Pacific stonecrop - Sedum stenopetalumSedum stenopetalumSedum stenopetalum is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common name wormleaf stonecrop. It is native to western North America from British Columbia and Alberta to northern California to Wyoming. It can be found in many types of rocky habitat, such as cliffs, talus,...
— narrowpetal stonecrop - Sedum villosum — purple stonecrop
CucurbitaceaeCucurbitaceaeThe plant family Cucurbitaceae consists of various squashes, melons, and gourds, including crops such as cucumber, pumpkins, luffas, and watermelons...
- Echinocystis lobata — wild mock-cucumber
- Marah oreganus — coast manroot
- Sicyos angulatusSicyos angulatusSicyos angulatus , the burr cucumber or star-cucumber is an annual vine in the cucumber family native to eastern North America....
— one-seed bur-cucumber
CupressaceaeCupressaceaeThe Cupressaceae or cypress family is a conifer family with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27 to 30 genera , which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130-140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or dioecious trees and shrubs from 1-116 m tall...
- Chamaecyparis nootkatensis — Alaska cedar
- Juniperus communisJuniperus communisJuniperus communis, the Common Juniper, is a species in the genus Juniperus, in the family Cupressaceae. It has the largest range of any woody plant, throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic south in mountains to around 30°N latitude in North America, Europe and Asia.-...
— ground juniper - Juniperus horizontalisJuniperus horizontalisJuniperus horizontalis is a low-growing shrubby juniper native to northern North America, throughout most of Canada from Yukon east to Newfoundland, and in the United States in Alaska, and locally from Montana east to Maine, reaching its furthest south in Wyoming and northern Illinois.It lives up...
— creeping juniper - Juniperus scopulorumJuniperus scopulorumJuniperus scopulorum is a species of juniper native to western North America, in Canada in British Columbia and southwest Alberta, in the United States from Washington east to North Dakota, south to Arizona and also locally western Texas, and northernmost Mexico from Sonora east to Coahuila...
— Rocky Mountain juniper
- Juniperus virginianaJuniperus virginianaJuniperus virginiana is a species of juniper native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, east of the Great Plains...
— eastern red-cedar - Juniperus x fassettii
- Thuja occidentalisThuja occidentalisThuja occidentalis is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is widely cultivated for use as an ornamental plant known as American Arbor Vitae. The endemic occurrence of this species is a northeastern distribution in North America...
— northern white-cedar - Thuja plicataThuja plicataThuja plicata, commonly called Western or pacific red cedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America...
— western red-cedar
Cuscutaceae
- Cuscuta cephalanthi — buttonbush dodder
- Cuscuta coryli — hazel dodder
- Cuscuta gronovii — Gronovius dodder
- Cuscuta megalocarpa — bigfruit dodder
- Cuscuta pentagonaCuscuta pentagonaCuscuta pentagona is a parasitic plant which is placed in the family Convolvulaceae, but was formerly classified in the family Cuscutaceae. It is a parasite of a wide range of herbaceous plants but is most important as a pest of lucerne and other legumes....
— field dodder - Cuscuta polygonorum — smartweed dodder
- Cuscuta salinaCuscuta salinaCuscuta salina is a species of dodder known by the common name salt marsh dodder. It is native to western North America, where it lives in seasonal alkaline or saline habitats such as vernal pools and salt flats. It is a parasitic plant, wrapping itself around wetland vegetation and tapping them...
— saltmarsh dodder
CyperaceaeCyperaceaeCyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera. These species are widely distributed, with the centers of diversity for the group...
- Blysmus rufus — red bulrush
- Bulbostylis capillarisBulbostylis capillarisBulbostylis capillaris is a species of sedge known by the common names densetuft hairsedge and threadleaf beakseed. It is native to much of North and Central America, where it grows in many types of habitat, generally in moist areas such as streamside meadows...
— densetuft hairsedge - Carex adelostoma — circumpolar sedge
- Carex adusta — crowded sedge
- Carex aggregata — glomerate sedge
- Carex alata — broadwing sedge
- Carex albicans — bellow-beaked sedge
- Carex albonigraCarex albonigraCarex albonigra is a species of sedge known by the common name black and white sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska and most of western Canada to California to New Mexico, where it grows in mainly dry, rocky high mountain habitat such as talus. This sedge forms a dense clump 10...
— black-and-white scale sedge - Carex albursina — white bear sedge
- Carex alopecoidea — foxtail sedge
- Carex amphibola — eastern narrowleaf sedge
- Carex amplifoliaCarex amplifoliaCarex amplifolia is a species of sedge known by the common name bigleaf sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in wet and seasonally wet areas in coniferous forests.-Description:...
— bigleaf sedge - Carex anguillata — snail sedge
- Carex annectens — yellowfruit sedge
- Carex anthoxanthea — yellow-flowered sedge
- Carex aperta — Columbian sedge
- Carex appalachica — Appalachian sedge
- Carex aquatilisCarex aquatilisCarex aquatilis is a species of sedge known by the common names water sedge and leafy tussock sedge. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout the northern reaches of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in many types of mountainous and Arctic habitat, including temperate coniferous...
— water sedge - Carex arctaCarex arctaCarex arcta is a species of sedge known by the common name northern cluster sedge. It is native to northern North America including most of Canada and northern parts of the United States. It grows in wet areas, especially in coniferous forests. This sedge produces dense clumps of erect stems up to...
— northern clustered sedge - Carex arctata — black sedge
- Carex arctiformis — polar sedge
- Carex argyrantha — hay sedge
- Carex assiniboinensis — Assiniboine sedge
- Carex atherodesCarex atherodesCarex atherodes is a species of sedge known by the common name wheat sedge. It is native to Eurasia and much of North America including most of Canada and the United States. It is a very common wetland plant across the American Midwest and areas west. It grows in moist and wet habitat, such as...
— awned sedge - Carex athrostachyaCarex athrostachyaCarex athrostachya is a species of sedge known by the common name slenderbeak sedge. It is native to western North America, including Alaska to central Canada, the western contiguous United States, and just into Baja California.-Description:...
— jointed-spike sedge - Carex atlantica — prickly bog sedge
- Carex atratiformis — black sedge
- Carex atrofusca — scorched alpine sedge
- Carex atrosquama — blackened sedge
- Carex aureaCarex aureaCarex aurea is a species of sedge known by the common name golden sedge. It is native to much of North America, including most of Canada and the western and central United States. It grows in wet habitat, often on soils of a basic pH.-Description:...
— golden-fruit sedge - Carex backii — Rocky Mountain sedge
- Carex baileyi — Bailey's sedge
- Carex bebbii — Bebb's sedge
- Carex bicknellii — Bicknell's sedge
- Carex bicolor — two-colour sedge
- Carex bigelowii — Bigelow's sedge
- Carex bipartita — Arctic hare's-foot sedge
- Carex blanda — woodland sedge
- Carex bolanderi — Bolander's sedge
- Carex bonanzensis — Yukon sedge
- Carex brevicaulis — shortstem sedge
- Carex brevior — fescue sedge
- Carex breweri — Brewer's sedge
- Carex bromoides — bromelike sedge
- Carex brunnescens — brownish sedge
- Carex bullata — button sedge
- Carex buxbaumiiCarex buxbaumiiCarex buxbaumii is a species of sedge known by the common name Buxbaum's sedge. It is native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Greenland to Eurasia and including most of Canada and the United States. It grows in wet habitat, such as marshes and fens. This sedge grows in...
— Buxbaum's sedge - Carex canescensCarex canescensCarex canescens L. is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae with pluriregional distribution growing in damp forests and wetlands.-External links:*...
— hoary sedge - Carex capillaris — hairlike sedge
- Carex capitataCarex capitataCarex capitata is a species of sedge known by the common name capitate sedge. It has a circumboreal distribution, growing in wet places in boreal forests and mountain meadows in alpine climates.-Description:...
— capitate sedge - Carex careyana — Carey's sedge
- Carex castanea — chestnut-coloured sedge
- Carex cephaloidea — thinleaf sedge
- Carex cephalophora — ovalleaf sedge
- Carex chordorrhizaCarex chordorrhizaCarex chordorrhiza, commonly called creeping sedge or string sedge, is a species of perennial plant in the family Cyperaceae with Holarctic distribution growing in acidic bogs.-Growth form and classification:...
— creeping sedge - Carex circinata — coiled sedge
- Carex communis — fibrous-root sedge
- Carex comosaCarex comosaCarex comosa is a species of sedge known by the common name longhair sedge. It is native to North America, where it grows in western and eastern regions of Canada and the United States, and parts of Mexico. It grows in wet places, including meadows and many types of wetlands. Tolerates deeper water...
— bristly sedge - Carex concinna — beautiful sedge
- Carex concinnoidesCarex concinnoidesCarex concinnoides is a species of sedge known by the common name northwestern sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it can be found in moist or dry habitat, often in woodland and forested slopes, on silty and clay soils. This sedge produces loose...
— northwestern sedge - Carex conoidea — field sedge
- Carex cordillerana — Cordillera sedge
- Carex crawei — Crawe's sedge
- Carex crawfordii — Crawford's sedge
- Carex crinita — fringed sedge
- Carex cristatella — crested sedge
- Carex crus-corvi — ravenfoot sedge
- Carex cryptolepis — northeastern sedge
- Carex cumulata — clustered sedge
- Carex cusickiiCarex cusickiiCarex cusickii is a species of sedge known by the common name Cusick's sedge. It is native to Northwestern North America from British Columbia to California, and in Utah, where it can be found in several types of wet habitat, such as marshes, mountain meadows, and ditches...
— Cusick's sedge - Carex davisii — Davis' sedge
- Carex debilis — white-edge sedge
- Carex deflexa — short-stemmed sedge
- Carex deweyana — shortscale sedge
- Carex diandraCarex diandraCarex diandra is a species of sedge known by the common name lesser panicled sedge.-Distribution:It is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, where it can be found throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. It is also known from New Zealand...
— lesser panicled sedge - Carex digitalis — slender wood sedge
- Carex dispermaCarex dispermaCarex disperma is a species of sedge known by the common name softleaf sedge. It is native to much of the northern Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Greenland, most of Canada and the contiguous United States, and across Eurasia.-Description:...
— softleaf sedge - Carex douglasiiCarex douglasiiCarex douglasii is a species of sedge known by the common name Douglas' sedge.-Distribution:It is native to much of western North America, including the western Canadian provinces, the western United States, and Baja California. It grows in dry, wet, and seasonally moist habitat, from prairie and...
— Douglas' sedge - Carex duriuscula — needleleaf sedge
- Carex dutillyi — Dutilly's sedge
- Carex eburnea — ebony sedge
- Carex echinataCarex echinataCarex echinata is a species of sedge known by the common names star sedge and little prickly sedge.-Distribution:This plant is native to North and Central America and parts of Eurasia. Carex echinata is a plant of wet forests, marshes, and mountain meadows of moderate elevation...
— little prickly sedge - Carex eleusinoides — goosegrass sedge
- Carex emoryiCarex emoryiCarex emoryi, the Riverbank tussock sedge or Emory's sedge, is a very attractive and functional native plant for stormwater applications. It thrives with alternating cycles of wet and dry, making it ideal for vegetated swales and infiltration basins.Native to much of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, C...
— Emory's sedge - Carex engelmannii — Engelmann's sedge
- Carex exilis — coast sedge
- Carex exsiccata — beaked sedge
- Carex festucaceaCarex festucaceaCarex festucacea or fescue sedge is a species of sedge that lives in eastern North America. It has been described as "a soft, gray green, wisp, to 2', with narrow leaves and somewhat taller stems, topped by an interrupted spike, with lower spikelets, shaped a bit like an overflowing ice cream cone...
— fescue sedge - Carex feta — green-sheath sedge
- Carex filifoliaCarex filifoliaCarex filifolia is a species of sedge known by the common name threadleaf sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to much of western North America, from Alaska to California and Manitoba to New Mexico, where it grows in moist and dry habitat....
— thread-leaved sedge - Carex flaccosperma — thinfruit sedge
- Carex flava — yellow sedge
- Carex folliculata — long sedge
- Carex formosa — handsome sedge
- Carex frankii — Frank's sedge
- Carex garberi — elk sedge
- Carex geyeriCarex geyeriCarex geyeri is a species of sedge known by the common names Geyer's sedge and elk sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in dry areas in mountain meadows, grasslands, and open forest. This sedge produces scattered tufts of stems...
— Geyer's sedge - Carex glacialis — alpine sedge
- Carex glareosa — weak-cluster sedge
- Carex gmelinii — Gmelin's sedge
- Carex gracilescens — slender sedge
- Carex gracillima — graceful sedge
- Carex granularis — meadow sedge
- Carex gravida — heavy-fruited sedge
- Carex grayi — Asa Gray's sedge
- Carex grisea — inflated narrowleaf sedge
- Carex gynandra — nodding sedge
- Carex gynocrates — northern bog sedge
- Carex hallii — Hall's sedge
- Carex hasseiCarex hasseiCarex hassei is a species of sedge known by the common name salt sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Baja California to New Mexico, where it grows in moist places, such as meadows.-Description:...
— Hasse's sedge - Carex haydenianaCarex haydenianaCarex haydeniana is a species of sedge known by the common name cloud sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to New Mexico, where it grows in moist, rocky areas in subalpine and alpine climates. This sedge produces clumps of drooping to decumbent stems up...
— Hayden's sedge - Carex haydenii — cloud sedge
- Carex heleonastes — Hudson Bay sedge
- Carex hendersonii — Henderson's sedge
- Carex heteroneuraCarex heteroneuraCarex heteroneura is a species of sedge known by the common name different-nerve sedge. It is native to western Canada and the western United States, where it grows in moist mountain habitat such as forests and meadows.-Description:...
— different-nerve sedge - Carex hirsutella — hirsute sedge
- Carex hirtifolia — pubescent sedge
- Carex hitchcockiana — Hitchcock's sedge
- Carex holostoma — Arctic marsh sedge
- Carex hoodiiCarex hoodiiCarex hoodii is a species of sedge known by the common name Hood's sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to South Dakota, where it grows in dry to moist habitat in forests and on mountain slopes.-Description:...
— Hood's sedge - Carex hookeriana — Hooker's sedge
- Carex hormathodes — marsh straw sedge
- Carex hostiana — host sedge
- Carex houghtoniana — Houghton's sedge
- Carex houghtoniana — shoreline sedge
- Carex hystericinaCarex hystericinaCarex hystericina is a species of sedge known by the common names bottlebrush sedge and porcupine sedge. It is native to much of North America including most of southern Canada and most of the United States. It grows in wet habitat such as wetlands and riverbanks, especially on calcareous soils. In...
— porcupine sedge - Carex illotaCarex illotaCarex illota is a species of sedge known by the common name sheep sedge. It is native to western North America, where it grows in wet places such as marshes and mountain meadows, from New Mexico and California north to Western Canada.-Description:...
— smallhead sedge - Carex incurviformis — seaside sedge
- Carex infirminervia
- Carex inops — longstolon sedge
- Carex interiorCarex interiorCarex interior is a species of sedge known by the common name inland sedge. It is native to much of North America from Alaska to northern Mexico to the mid-Atlantic United States. It grows in wet habitat, most often in calcareous soils. This sedge produces clumps of stems approaching a meter in...
— inland sedge - Carex interrupta — green-fruited sedge
- Carex intumescensCarex intumescensCarex intumescens, also known as bladder sedge, is a species of Carex...
— greater bladder sedge - Carex jamesiiCarex jamesiiCarex jamesii is a sedge native to North America from Minnesota east to New York and south to Oklahoma and South Carolina. It occurs in mesic hardwood forests and flowers from early May to mid July. For its genus, it is a distinctive species when in flower. It has two to four perigynia that are...
— Nebraska sedge - Carex juniperorum — cedar sedge
- Carex krausei — Krause's sedge
- Carex lacustris — lakebank sedge
- Carex laeviconica — smooth-cone sedge
- Carex laeviculmis — smoothstem sedge
- Carex laevivaginata — smooth-sheath sedge
- Carex lapponica — Lapland sedge
- Carex lasiocarpaCarex lasiocarpaCarex lasiocarpa is a species of sedge known by the common names slender sedge and woollyfruit sedge.-Distribution:This is an aquatic or shore plant of wet areas in mountainous areas of moderate elevation. It is found across much of North America and Eurasia...
— slender sedge - Carex laxa — weak sedge
- Carex laxiculmis — spreading sedge
- Carex laxiflora — looseflower sedge
- Carex leavenworthii — Leavenworth's sedge
- Carex lenticularisCarex lenticularisCarex lenticularis is a species of sedge known by the common name lakeshore sedge. It is native to much of northern North America, including most all of Canada and the western United States, where it grows in wet habitat.-Description:...
— shore sedge - Carex leptaleaCarex leptaleaCarex leptalea is a species of sedge known by the common names bristly-stalked sedge and flaccid sedge. It is native to much of North America including most of Canada and the United States. It only grows in wetlands. This sedge produces dense clusters of thin stems up to 70 centimeters tall from a...
— bristly-stalk sedge - Carex leptonervia — finely-nerve sedge
- Carex leptopoda — short-scaled sedge
- Carex limosaCarex limosaCarex limosa is a species of sedge known by the common names mud sedge and shore sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is an aquatic or shore plant which can most often be found in peat bogs in mountains. It is distributed across North America and Eurasia.-Description:Carex limosa has a large rhizome and...
— mud sedge - Carex livida — livid sedge
- Carex loliacea — rye-grass sedge
- Carex longii — greenish-white sedge
- Carex lucorum — blue ridge sedge
- Carex lugens — spruce-muskeg sedge
- Carex lupuliformis — false hop sedge
- Carex lupulina — hop sedge
- Carex lurida — shallow sedge
- Carex luzulinaCarex luzulinaCarex luzulina is a species of sedge known by the common name woodrush sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in wet habitat such as bogs and mountain meadows.-Description:Carex luzulina produces loose to...
— woodrush sedge - Carex lyngbyeiCarex lyngbyeiCarex lyngbyei is a species of sedge known by the common name Lyngbye's sedge. It is native to the west coast of North America from Alaska to California, where it "is the common sedge of the Pacific coastal salt marshes." It is also known from Greenland and Iceland. It grows in habitat with...
— Lyngbye's sedge - Carex mackenziei — MacKenzie's sedge
- Carex macloviana — Falkland Island sedge
- Carex macrocephala — bighead sedge
- Carex macrochaeta — Alaska largeawn sedge
- Carex magellanica — boreal bog sedge
- Carex marina — sea sedge
- Carex maritima — seaside sedge
- Carex meadii — Mead's sedge
- Carex membranacea — fragile-seed sedge
- Carex merritt-fernaldii — Merritt Fernald's sedge
- Carex mertensiiCarex mertensiiCarex mertensii is a species of sedge known by the common name Mertens' sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to Montana, where it grows in moist and wet habitat in mountain forests and meadows. This sedge produces clumps of stems reaching maximum heights between 80...
— Merten's sedge - Carex mesochorea — midland sedge
- Carex michauxiana — Michaux's sedge
- Carex microchaeta — alpine tundra sedge
- Carex microglochin — false uncinia sedge
- Carex micropteraCarex micropteraCarex microptera is a species of sedge known by the common name smallwing sedge. It is native to western North America, including most all of western Canada and the western United States. It occurs in moist mountain habitat such as meadows and riverbanks. This sedge produces dense clumps of erect...
— smallwing sedge - Carex misandra — shortleaf sedge
- Carex misandroides — man-hater sedge
- Carex molestaCarex molestaCarex molesta is a species of sedge known by the common name troublesome sedge. It is native to eastern and central North America, where it grows in varied wet and dry habitats, performs equally well in full sun and partial shade, including disturbed areas such as roadsides. It is an introduced...
— troublesome sedge - Carex muehlenbergii — Mühlenberg's sedge
- Carex muskingumensis — Muskingum sedge
- Carex nardina — nard sedge
- Carex nebrascensisCarex nebrascensisCarex nebrascensis is a species of sedge known by the common name Nebraska sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to the central and Western United States and north into central Canada. It grows in wetlands at various elevations, including the Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert sky islands...
— Nebraska sedge - Carex nigraCarex nigraCarex nigra Reichard is a perennial species of plants in the family Cyperaceae native to wetlands of Europe, western Asia, NW Africa and E North America. The eastern limit of its range reaches central Siberia, Turkey and probably Caucasus....
— black sedge - Carex nigricansCarex nigricansCarex nigricans is a species of sedge known by the common name black alpine sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to western North America from Alaska to the Sierra Nevada in California, to Colorado, where it grows in wet areas in mountain, taiga, and tundra habitat.-Description:Carex nigricans...
— black alpine sedge - Carex nigromarginata — blackedge sedge
- Carex normalis — greater straw sedge
- Carex norvegica — Scandinavian sedge
- Carex novae-angliae — New England sedge
- Carex obnuptaCarex obnuptaCarex obnupta is a species of sedge known by the common name slough sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California where it grows abundantly in wet, often saline habitat such as wetlands. The plant produces upright, angled stems approaching 1.2 meters in maximum...
— slough sedge - Carex obtusata — blunt sedge
- Carex oligocarpa — eastern few-fruit sedge
- Carex oligosperma — few-seed sedge
- Carex ormostachya — necklace spike sedge
- Carex ovalisCarex ovalisCarex leporina is a species of sedge known in the British Isles as oval sedge and in North America eggbract sedge. It is native to Eurasia and eastern and western North America, where it grows in seasonally wet habitat, such as meadows and fields. This sedge produces many thin stems and narrow...
— oval sedge - Carex pachystachyaCarex pachystachyaCarex pachystachya is a species of sedge known by the common name Chamisso sedge. It is native to western North America from Alaska to Saskatchewan to California, where it grows in dry to wet areas in many types of forest and grassland habitat. This sedge produces dense clumps of erect stems up to...
— thickhead sedge - Carex paleaceaCarex paleaceaCarex paleacea is one of the 579 species of Carex. The Wetland Indicator Status for the species is classified as "obligate wetland" , occurring 99% of the time in a typical salt marsh environment when conditions are favorable....
— chaffy sedge - Carex pallescens — pale sedge
- Carex pansaCarex pansaCarex pansa is a species of sedge known by the common name sand dune sedge. It is native to coast of western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in dunes and other sandy habitat. This grasslike sedge produces sharply triangular stems up to about 40 centimeters tall...
— sand-dune sedge - Carex parryana — Parry's sedge
- Carex paucifloraCarex paucifloraCarex pauciflora is a perennial species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae native to Holarctic wetlands....
— few-flower sedge - Carex paysonis — Payson's sedge
- Carex peckii — white-tinged sedge
- Carex pedunculata — longstalk sedge
- Carex pellitaCarex pellitaCarex pellita is a species of sedge known by the common name woolly sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to much of North America, including southern Canada and the United States, except the Southeast.-Description:...
— woolly sedge - Carex pensylvanicaCarex pensylvanicaCarex pensylvanica is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family commonly called Pennsylvania sedge.-Distribution:Based on a census of the literature, herbaria specimens, and confirmed sightings, C. pensylvanica is found in Manitoba Ontario and Quebec in Canada; and in the United States...
— Pennsylvania sedge - Carex petasataCarex petasataCarex petasata is a species of sedge known by the common name Liddon sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to much of western North America, from Alaska and northwestern Canada to California and to New Mexico, where it grows in several habitat types, including dry and wet, and low to high...
— liddon sedge - Carex petricosa — rock sedge
- Carex phaeocephalaCarex phaeocephalaCarex phaeocephala is a species of sedge known by the common name dunhead sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to much of western North America, from Alaska to California to New Mexico, where it grows from foothills to high elevation habitats, including areas of alpine climate, generally in...
— mountain hare sedge - Carex piperi — Piper's sedge
- Carex plantaginea — plantain-leaf sedge
- Carex platylepis — broadscale sedge
- Carex platyphylla — broadleaf sedge
- Carex pluriflora — several-flowered sedge
- Carex podocarpa — shortstalk sedge
- Carex praeceptorumCarex praeceptorumCarex praeceptorum is a species of sedge known by the common names early sedge and teacher's sedge. It is native to much of western North America, from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in wet, marshy habitat such as bogs and lakeshores...
— teacher's sedge - Carex praegracilisCarex praegracilisCarex praegracilis is a species of sedge known by the common names clustered field sedge, field sedge, and expressway sedge.-Distribution:...
— clustered field sedge - Carex prairea — prairie sedge
- Carex prasina — drooping sedge
- Carex praticolaCarex praticolaCarex praticola is a species of sedge known by the common name meadow sedge. It is native to most of northern North America, including most of Canada and the northernmost United States. It grows in many habitat types from wet to dry, including moist mountain meadows and woodlands. This sedge...
— northern meadow sedge - Carex preslii — Presl's sedge
- Carex projecta — necklace sedge
- Carex propositaCarex propositaCarex proposita is a species of sedge known by the common name Great Smoky Mountain sedge. It has a scattered distribution in parts of the western United States, including Washington, Idaho, and California. It was named for the Smoky Mountains of Idaho, not the Great Smoky Mountains, where it does...
— Smoky Mountain sedge - Carex pseudocyperus — cyperus-like sedge
- Carex pyrenaica — Pyrenean sedge
- Carex radiata — stellate sedge
- Carex ramenskii — Ramenski's sedge
- Carex rariflora — loose-flowered sedge
- Carex raymondii — black sedge
- Carex raynoldsiiCarex raynoldsiiCarex raynoldsii is a species of sedge known by the common name Raynolds' sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to western North America from California to Colorado to Yukon, where it grows in mountain meadows in subalpine and alpine climates....
— Raynolds' sedge - Carex recta — saltmarsh sedge
- Carex retroflexa — reflexed sedge
- Carex retrorsa — retrorse sedge
- Carex richardsonii — Richardson's sedge
- Carex rosea — rosy sedge
- Carex rossiiCarex rossiiCarex rossii, commonly known as Ross's sedge, is a hardy, monoecious species of sedge that is often a pioneer species in areas with little or no established vegetation, or in places where disturbance has occurred. It flowers in May and June....
— short sedge - Carex rostrataCarex rostrataCarex rostrata, bottle sedge, is a perennial species of sedge in the family Cyperaceae native to Holarctic fens....
— beaked sedge - Carex rotundata — roundfruit sedge
- Carex rufina — snowbed sedge
- Carex rupestris — rock sedge
- Carex sabulosa — sand sedge
- Carex salina — saltmarsh sedge
- Carex sartwellii — Sartwell's sedge
- Carex saxatilis — russett sedge
- Carex saximontana — Rocky Mountain sedge
- Carex scabrata — rough sedge
- Carex schweinitzii — Schweinitz' sedge
- Carex scirpoidea — bulrush sedge
- Carex scopariaCarex scopariaCarex scoparia is a species of sedge known by the common names broom sedge and pointed broom sedge. It should not be confused with the unrelated grass species known as "broom sedge," Andropogon virginicus.-Distribution:...
— broom sedge - Carex scopulorum — Holm's Rocky Mountain sedge
- Carex seorsa — weak stellate sedge
- Carex shortiana — Short's sedge
- Carex siccata — dryspike sedge
- Carex silicea — seabeach sedge
- Carex simulataCarex simulataCarex simulata is a species of sedge known by the common name analogue sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to the western United States and western Canada, where it grows in many types of wet habitat, from mountain meadows to ditches, often in alkaline conditions.-Description:Carex simulata...
— copycat sedge - Carex sparganioidesCarex sparganioidesBur-reed sedge is a perennial plant belonging to the sedge family . Its native range includes most of the Eastern and Central U.S., and it is typically found in hardwood or mixed forests...
— bur-reed sedge - Carex spectabilisCarex spectabilisCarex spectabilis is a species of sedge known by the common name showy sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to northwestern North America from Alaska to the Northwestern United States, and in California and Utah...
— northwestern showy sedge - Carex sprengelii — longbeak sedge
- Carex squarrosa — squarrose sedge
- Carex sterilis — dioecious sedge
- Carex stipata — awl-fruit sedge
- Carex striatula — lined sedge
- Carex strictaCarex strictaCarex stricta is a species of sedge known by the common name Tussock Sedge.-External links:*...
— tussock sedge - Carex stylosa — long-styled sedge
- Carex suberecta — prairie straw sedge
- Carex subfusca — rusty sedge
- Carex subspathacea — Hoppner's sedge
- Carex supina — weak Arctic sedge
- Carex swanii — Swan's sedge
- Carex sychnocephala — many-headed sedge
- Carex tahoensis — Lake Tahoe sedge
- Carex tenera — slender sedge
- Carex tenuiflora — sparseflower sedge
- Carex terrae-novae — Newfoundland sedge
- Carex tetanica — rigid sedge
- Carex tincta — tinged sedge
- Carex tonsa — shaved sedge
- Carex torreyi — Torrey's sedge
- Carex torta — twisted sedge
- Carex tribuloides — blunt broom sedge
- Carex trichocarpa — hairyfruit sedge
- Carex trisperma — three-seed sedge
- Carex tuckermanii — Tuckerman's sedge
- Carex tumulicolaCarex tumulicolaCarex tumulicola, the splitawn sedge foothill sedge, or previously Berkeley sedge, is a Sedge member of the Cyperaceae family.-Description:...
— foothill sedge - Carex typhina — cattail sedge
- Carex umbellata — hidden sedge
- Carex unilateralis — one-sided sedge
- Carex ursina — bear sedge
- Carex utriculataCarex utriculataCarex utriculata is a species of sedge known by the common name Northwest Territory sedge.-Distribution:This sedge is native to the northern half of North America, including most all of Canada and the northern United States, and down to montane California. It is also found in parts of Eurasia...
— beaked sedge - Carex vacillans
- Carex vaginata — sheathed sedge
- Carex vallicolaCarex vallicolaCarex vallicola is a species of sedge known by the common name valley sedge. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to New Mexico, where it grows in many types of moist and dry habitat, including forest and grassland. This sedge produces clumps of stems up to about 60...
— valley sedge - Carex vesicariaCarex vesicariaCarex vesicaria is an essentially Holarctic species of sedge known by the common name Blister Sedge. The dried fibers, sometimes used as thermal insulation in polar regions, are known as sennegrass, saennegrass or similar, from the plant's Bokmål name Sennegras.-Distribution:This sedge is native to...
— inflated sedge - Carex virescens — ribbed sedge
- Carex viridula — little green sedge
- Carex vulpinoideaCarex vulpinoideaCarex vulpinoidea is a species of sedge known by the common name fox sedge. It is native to North America, including most of Canada and the United States and part of Mexico, and it is known in Europe and New Zealand as an introduced species. The sedge lives in wet and seasonally wet habitat, and...
— fox sedge - Carex wiegandii — Wiegand's sedge
- Carex willdenowii — Willdenow's sedge
- Carex williamsiiCarex williamsiiCarex williamsii is a species of sedge found in Siberia and northern North America, from Alaska to Greenland.-External links:*, PLANTS Profile*, Flora of North America...
— Williams' sedge - Carex woodii — pretty sedge
- Carex x abitibiana — Abitibi sedge
- Carex x anticostensis — Anticosti sedge
- Carex x calderi — Calder's sedge
- Carex x connectens
- Carex x crinitoides
- Carex x exsalina
- Carex x firmior
- Carex x flavicans
- Carex x grahamii — Graham's sedge
- Carex x hartii — Hart's sedge
- Carex x helvola
- Carex x josephi-schmittii — Joseph Schmitt's sedge
- Carex x knieskernii — Knieskern's sedge
- Carex x langeana — Lange's sedge
- Carex x leutzii — Leutz' sedge
- Carex x limula
- Carex x mainensis — Maine sedge
- Carex x mendica
- Carex x neobigelowii
- Carex x neofilipendula
- Carex x neomiliaris
- Carex x neopaleacea
- Carex x neorigida
- Carex x nubens
- Carex x paleacoides
- Carex x pannewitziana — Pannewitz' sedge
- Carex x patuensis
- Carex x persalina
- Carex x physocarpioides
- Carex x pieperiana — Pieper's sedge
- Carex x pseudohelvola
- Carex x quebecensis — Québec sedge
- Carex x quirponensis
- Carex x reducta
- Carex x rollandii — Rolland's sedge
- Carex x saxenii — Saxen's sedge
- Carex x spiculosa
- Carex x stenolepis
- Carex x subimpressa
- Carex x sublimosa
- Carex x subnigra
- Carex x subpaleacea
- Carex x subreducta
- Carex x subsalina
- Carex x subviridula
- Carex x sullivantii — Sullivant's sedge
- Carex x supergoodenoughii — Goodenough's sedge
- Carex x trichina
- Carex x ungavensis — Ungava sedge
- Carex xerantica — white-scaled sedge
- Cladium mariscoides — twigrush
- Cyperus bipartitusCyperus bipartitusCyperus bipartitus is a common species of sedge known by several common names, including shining flatsedge and river cyperus. The name "slender flatsedge" is also sometimes used but more properly applies to Cyperus gracilis. C...
— shining flatsedge - Cyperus dentatus — toothed sedge
- Cyperus diandrus — umbrella flatsedge
- Cyperus echinatusCyperus echinatusCyperus echinatus is a species of plant in the sedge family. It is native to most of eastern North America....
— globe flatsedge - Cyperus eragrostisCyperus eragrostisCyperus eragrostis is a species of sedge known by several common names, including tall flatsedge and pale galingale. It is a green sedge with tall, erect stems, and long, thin, pointed leaves. Its flowers are found within tough, rounded, greenish-yellow or beige spikelets...
— tall flatsedge - Cyperus erythrorhizosCyperus erythrorhizosCyperus erythrorhizos is a species of sedge known by the common name redroot flatsedge. It is found throughout North America from central Canada to central Mexico. It is a plant of wet areas such as rivers and ditches, generally at low elevations. It gets its common and scientific names from the...
— redroot flatsedge - Cyperus esculentusCyperus esculentusCyperus esculentus is a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, often cultivated for its edible tubers . It is an annual or perennial plant, growing to 90 cm tall, with solitary stems growing from a tuber...
— Chufa flatsedge - Cyperus flavescens — yellow flatsedge
- Cyperus houghtonii — Houghton's umbrella-sedge
- Cyperus lupulinus — Great Plains flatsedge
- Cyperus odoratusCyperus odoratusCyperus odoratus is a species of sedge known by the common names fragrant flatsedge and rusty flatsedge. This plant can be found in much of the tropical and warm temperate world, including South, Central, and North America, much of Asia and the Pacific, Australia, and parts of Africa. It is a plant...
— rusty flatsedge - Cyperus schweinitzii — Schweinitz' flatsedge
- Cyperus squarrosusCyperus squarrosusCyperus squarrosus is a species of sedge known by several common names, including bearded flatsedge and awned flatsedge. It is found in wet environments nearly worldwide. It is a small sedge, reaching a maximum height between 10 and 16 centimeters. There are one to three short, thin leaves around...
— awned cyperus - Cyperus strigosusCyperus strigosusCyperus strigosus is a species of sedge known by the common names false nutsedge and straw-colored flatsedge. It is native to most of the United States and Canada, where it grows in wet areas in many habitat types, including disturbed and cultivated areas such as roadsides and crop fields. It is...
— straw-coloured flatsedge - Dulichium arundinaceum — three-way sedge
- Eleocharis acicularisEleocharis acicularisEleocharis acicularis is a species of spikesedge known by the common names needle spikerush and dwarf hairgrass. It has a circumboreal distribution and it can also be found throughout the rest of the Americas. It is also found in Australia, where it is probably an introduced species...
— least spikerush - Eleocharis aestuum
- Eleocharis atropurpureaEleocharis atropurpureaEleocharis atropurpurea is a species of spikesedge known by the common name purple spikerush. This is an aquatic plant native to much of the tropical world. It also has a wide distribution in temperate regions of North and South America and Asia. It is present in Europe, where it may be an...
— purple spikerush - Eleocharis compressa — flat-stemmed spikerush
- Eleocharis diandra — Wright's spikerush
- Eleocharis elliptica — slender spikerush
- Eleocharis engelmannii — Engelmann's spikerush
- Eleocharis equisetoides — horsetail spikerush
- Eleocharis erythropoda — bald spikerush
- Eleocharis fallax — creeping spikerush
- Eleocharis geniculataEleocharis geniculataEleocharis geniculata is a species of spikesedge known by several common names, including bent spikerush and Canada spikesedge. This is a widespread plant of wet areas in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and some Pacific Islands. It is an annual spikesedge growing to a maximum height of about 40...
— capitate spikerush - Eleocharis halophilaEleocharis halophilaEleocharis halophila is a perennial halophytic plant endemic to salt marshes in eastern Canada, in Ontario in Hudson Bay and James Bay, Quebec in the St. Lawrence Seaway as far as the city of Quebec, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and in the United States from Maine to North Carolina...
— saltmarsh spikerush - Eleocharis intermedia — matted spikerush
- Eleocharis kamtschatica — Kamtchatka spikerush
- Eleocharis macrostachyaEleocharis macrostachyaEleocharis macrostachya is a species of spikesedge known by the common name pale spikerush. It is widely distributed in North America and occurs in parts of South America. It is a plant of varied moist habitats, including freshwater lakes and brackish marshes and ponds, ditches, vernal pools, and...
— creeping spikerush - Eleocharis mamillata — softstem spikerush
- Eleocharis nitida — slender spikerush
- Eleocharis obtusaEleocharis obtusaEleocharis obtusa is a species of spikesedge known by the common name blunt spikerush. This plant is widely distributed across Canada and the United States, where it grows in wet areas such as riverbanks and moist forest floors. It is also a weed of rice paddies, especially when the rice plants are...
— blunt spikerush - Eleocharis olivacea — capitate spikerush
- Eleocharis ovata — ovate spikerush
- Eleocharis palustrisEleocharis palustrisEleocharis palustris Roem. & Schult. is a species of mat-forming perennial plants in the genus Eleocharis growing in wetlands throughout the Boreal Kingdom. E...
— creeping spikerush - Eleocharis parvulaEleocharis parvulaEleocharis parvula is a species of spikesedge known by the common names dwarf spikerush, small spikerush and hairgrass in aquaria. It has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout Eurasia and North America, into Central America. It is a plant of brackish and saltwater habitat, such as marshes...
— small spikerush - Eleocharis quadrangulataEleocharis quadrangulataEleocharis quadrangulata is a species of spikesedge known by the common names squarestem spikerush and four-angled spikerush. It is native to much of North America from eastern Canada to southern Mexico, where it grows in and around freshwater in lakes and other water bodies. It is a rhizomatous...
— squarestem spikerush - Eleocharis quinquefloraEleocharis quinquefloraEleocharis quinqueflora is a species of spikesedge known by the common name fewflower spikerush. This plant has a circumboreal distribution and is also found in the southern half of the United States, as well as Chile. It is a resident of wet meadows, bogs, hot springs, and other moist places. This...
— few-flower spikerush - Eleocharis robbinsii — Robbins' spikerush
- Eleocharis rostellataEleocharis rostellataEleocharis rostellata is a species of spikesedge known by the common name beaked spikerush. It is native to the Americas, where it is widespread from Canada to the West Indies to Chile....
— beaked spikerush - Eleocharis smallii — Small's creeping spikerush
- Eleocharis tenuis — slender spikerush
- Eleocharis tuberculosa — long-tuberculed spikerush
- Eleocharis uniglumis — creeping spikerush
- Eriophorum altaicum — white-bristle cottongrass
- Eriophorum angustifolium — narrowleaf cottongrass
- Eriophorum brachyantherum — shortanther cottongrass
- Eriophorum callitrixEriophorum callitrixEriophorum callitrix, commonly known as Arctic cotton, Arctic cottongrass, or suputi in Inuktitut, is an Arctic plant in the Cyperaceae family. This plant is food for migrating snow geese and caribou. The Inuit used the seed heads as wicks in oil lamps. Clumps were placed into babies' pants and...
— sheathed cottongrass - Eriophorum chamissonis — russett cottongrass
- Eriophorum gracileEriophorum gracileEriophorum gracile is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is known by the common name slender cottonsedge, or slender cottongrass. Eriophorum gracile is a plant with circumboreal distribution, extending south into mountain ranges of the Northern Hemisphere...
— slender cottongrass - Eriophorum russeolum — russet cottongrass
- Eriophorum scheuchzeri — Scheuchzer's cottongrass
- Eriophorum tenellum — rough cottongrass
- Eriophorum vaginatumEriophorum vaginatumEriophorum vaginatum L. is a species of perennial herbaceous plants in the family Cyperaceae, native to bogs and other acidic wetlands throughout the Holarctic Kingdom. It is a 30-60 cm high tussock-forming plant with erect solitary spikelets.-External links:* in Flora of North America*...
— tussock cottongrass - Eriophorum virginicum — tawny cottongrass
- Eriophorum viridicarinatum — green-keeled cottongrass
- Eriophorum x gauthieri — Gauthier's cottongrass
- Eriophorum x medium
- Eriophorum x porsildii — Porsild's cottongrass
- Eriophorum x pylaieanum
- Eriophorum x rousseauanum — Rousseau's cottongrass
- Fimbristylis autumnalis — slender fimbry
- Fimbristylis puberula — hairy fimbristylis
- Fuirena pumila — dwarf umbrella-sedge
- Isolepis cernuaIsolepis cernuaIsolepis cernua is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names fiberoptic grass, tufted clubrush, and low bulrush. It is widespread, being native to many regions of the world, including parts of Australasia, Eurasia, Africa, and North and South America.-External...
— low bulrush - Kobresia myosuroides — Pacific kobresia
- Kobresia sibirica — Siberian kobresia
- Kobresia simpliciuscula — simple kobresia
- Lipocarpha micrantha — dwarf bulrush
- Rhynchospora albaRhynchospora albaRhynchospora alba, the white beak-sedge, is a plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is a tufted herbaceous perennial plant found in fairly acidic wetlands which have few plant nutrients....
— white beakrush - Rhynchospora capillacea — horned beakrush
- Rhynchospora capitellataRhynchospora capitellataRhynchospora capitellata is a species of sedge known by the common name brownish beaksedge. It is native to eastern North America and a few spots in the western United States. It grows in wet habitat, such as swamps, springtime meadows, and moist areas in forests...
— brownish beakrush - Rhynchospora fusca — brown beakrush
- Schoenoplectus acutus — hardstem bulrush
- Schoenoplectus americanusSchoenoplectus americanusSchoenoplectus americanus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names chairmaker's bulrush and Olney's three-square bulrush...
— three-square bulrush - Schoenoplectus fluviatilis — river bulrush
- Schoenoplectus heterochaetusSchoenoplectus heterochaetusSchoenoplectus heterochaetus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name slender bulrush. It is native to North America, where it can be found in many regions of Canada and the United States. It grows in a variety of wetland habitat types, including marshes and...
— slender bulrush - Schoenoplectus maritimus — saltmarsh bulrush
- Schoenoplectus novae-angliae — New England bulrush
- Schoenoplectus pungens — three-square bulrush
- Schoenoplectus purshianus — weakstalk bulrush
- Schoenoplectus robustus — saltmarsh bulrush
- Schoenoplectus saximontanusSchoenoplectus saximontanusSchoenoplectus saximontanus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common name Rocky Mountain bulrush. It is native to North America, where it is known from several areas scattered throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It grows in moist and wet habitat or...
— Rocky Mountain bulrush - Schoenoplectus smithii — Smith's bulrush
- Schoenoplectus subterminalisSchoenoplectus subterminalisSchoenoplectus subterminalis is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names water bulrush and swaying bulrush. It is native to North America, where it is known from many areas across Canada and the United States. It grows in moist and wet habitat, and often grows in...
— water bulrush - Schoenoplectus tabernaemontaniSchoenoplectus tabernaemontaniSchoenoplectus tabernaemontani is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names softstem bulrush and great bulrush. It can be found throughout the world, growing in many types of moist and wet habitat, and sometimes in shallow water. It is quite variable in appearance...
— softstem bulrush - Schoenoplectus torreyi — Torrey's bulrush
- Schoenoplectus x oblongus
- Scirpus atrocinctus — black-girdle bulrush
- Scirpus atrovirens — woolgrass bulrush
- Scirpus cyperinusScirpus cyperinusScirpus cyperinus, commonly known as woolgrass, is a herbaceous emergent that is native to the eastern United States and eastern Canada....
— cottongrass bulrush - Scirpus expansus — woodland beakrush
- Scirpus georgianus — Georgia bulrush
- Scirpus hattorianus
- Scirpus longii — Long's bulrush
- Scirpus microcarpusScirpus microcarpusScirpus microcarpus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names panicled bulrush, smallfruit bulrush, and barberpole bulrush...
— smallfruit bulrush - Scirpus nevadensis — Nevada bulrush
- Scirpus pallidus — pale bulrush
- Scirpus pedicellatus — stalked bulrush
- Scirpus pendulusScirpus pendulusScirpus pendulus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names pendulous bulrush, rufous bulrush, and nodding bulrush. It is native to North America, where it can be found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, through the American midwest, some areas of...
— pendulous bulrush - Scirpus x peckii — Peck's bulrush
- Scleria pauciflora — few-flower nutrush
- Scleria triglomerata — whip nutrush
- Scleria verticillata — low nutrush
- Trichophorum alpinum — alpine cottongrass
- Trichophorum caespitosum — tufted clubrush
- Trichophorum clintonii — Clinton's bulrush
- Trichophorum planifolium — bashful bulrush
- Trichophorum pumilum — Rolland's leafless-bulrush