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Speaks for its own area (GA, GA-NC-SC, NC, TN), not this state: Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program), Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition.","label":"Native to West Virginia (state-specific source)","provenance":{"flags":["over_higher_tier"],"source":"natureserve_explorer","specificity":"state","tier":"organization"},"rule":"fact-hierarchy-2","status":"native_supported"},"source_name":"Carex gynandra","taxon_id":"taxon:097aeb67-2499-5f10-b50a-d399d033af6a","revision":"publish:d412fcf4-883a-4c06-b542-542693807821","photos":[{"id":"inat-62194260","src":"/api/photos/image/155da807b4972bc7e007f74be33188a52fed2097cfa9600cc1d0ad42c80f7334.jpeg","view":"reference","alt":"Carex gynandra photograph","width":333,"height":500,"artist":"Étienne Lacroix-Carignan","license":"CC0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","source_url":"https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/62194260","changes":"iNaturalist medium image; no additional crop, retouching, or re-encoding.","kind":"photo"}]}