Luzula acuminata

Cove forests, northern hardwood forests, montane oak forests, seepage swamp hummocks, and mesic clearings in the mountains; eastward it occurs in mesic and dry-mesic forests, often in sheet-eroded soils of bluffs, steep slopes, and stream banks. Frequent in the inner coastal Plain, outer s. piedmont, and sw. mountains; infrequent elsewhere in mountains; rare in the inner and n. piedmont and outer coastal Plain. Based on limited herbarium data and field observations, plants matching the description of var. acuminata occur primarily in the mountains, while those matching var. carolinae occur primarily in the sw. mountains and eastern Virginia.