Carex arctata, known as drooping woodland sedge, is a species of sedge native to eastern North America.[2] It is sometimes called black sedge, compressed sedge, or drooping wood sedge.[3] It occurs from Manitoba to the Maritimes in Canada, south to northwestern North Carolina, and west to Minnesota.[1][4]Carex arctata grows in bogs, hardwood forests, and spruce forests.[4]
Carex arctata and Carex castanea (chestnut sedge, also in C. sect. Hymenochlaenae) form a hybrid known as Carex × knieskernii (Knieskern's sedge).[3][6]
^ abcBrouillet L, Desmet P, Coursol F, Meades SJ, Favreau M, Anions M, Bélisle P, Gendreau C, Shorthouse D, et al. (2010). "Carex arctata". Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN). Retrieved 13 June 2020.
^ abWeakley, Alan S. (2018), Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, working draft of 20 August 2018, University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
