Carex glaucodea

Dry-mesic to dry upland forests and woodlands, piedmont hardpan forests, upland depression swamps, meadows, fields, and clearings; rarely in small-stream floodplain forests; often in clayey soils and habitats that are periodically wet but mostly dry. This species has not been segregated from Carex flaccosperma and C. pigra in most Virginia studies, and its distribution and status are incompletely known. Field experience and herbarium specimens suggest that it is frequent throughout the piedmont and more local in the mountains (at low elevations) and the coastal Plain.