DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Carex stricta | Tussock Sedge 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Tussock sedge occurs from Newfoundland south to the Carolinas and
Tennessee and from Manitoba south to eastern Oklahoma and Texas
[12,14,19,20]. 


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES12  Longleaf - slash pine
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AR  CT  DE  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  ME  MD
     MA  MI  MN  MO  NE  NH  NJ  NY  NC  ND
     OH  OK  PA  RI  SC  SD  TN  TX  VT  VA
     WV  WI  WY  MB  NB  NF  NS  ON  PE  PQ


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  APIS  CATO  CUVA  DEWA  EFMO
     INDU  ISRO  MACA  MORR  PIRO  PIPE
     RICH  ROCR  SLBE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   10  Wyoming Basin
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    32  Red spruce
    42  Bur oak
    44  Chestnut oak
    46  Eastern redcedar
    51  White pine - chestnut oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    70  Longleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
   110  Black oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Tussock sedge is a moist-site species [19].  It is often dominant in
meadows in New England and the upper Midwest [7,22].  Tussock sedge also
occurs in moist forest communities [23,31].

Common associates of tussock sedge include blueberries (Vaccinium spp.),
huckleberries (Gaylussacia spp.), common winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
bog rush (Juncus effusus), bog Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum),
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii
var. gerardii), bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis), and other
sedges (Carex spp.)  [3,7,15,17].

Related categories for Species: Carex stricta | Tussock Sedge