| Author | Rafinesque | |
| Distribution | Mountains and Piedmont, Piedmont-like sites in the inner Coastal Plain along brownwater rivers; a few outer Coastal Plain sites in high pH soils. Absent from the Sandhills proper and the easternmost counties.
Newf. to Man., south to northwestern FL and LA. | |
| Abundance | Frequent to common in the mountains and Piedmont; scarce (rare to uncommon) elsewhere in the Coastal Plain. The full species is clearly an S5 one in the state, not S4. | |
| Habitat | Rich mesic hardwood forests, cove forests, pine-hardwoods, rocky slope woodlands, brownwater river floodplains and streambanks; calcium-influenced soils along creeks in Jones and Craven counties; calcium-influenced soils in a wet pine savanna in Pender County. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-August. | |
| Identification | Hairy Woodrush grows mostly 8 inches to a foot tall. The grass-like leaves are mostly basal and near-basal, with a few reduced ones up the stem; the blades are rather wispy/hairy on the margins. The inflorescence is a terminal umbel (generally spherical outline, with many stalks from a central point), each stalk with a single small flower plus a second one on a short branchlet. The overall aspect makes for a very handsome plant. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Two varieties occur in the state -- the more widespread var. carolinae, and the mostly montane var. acuminata.
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| Other Common Name(s) | None | |
| State Rank | S4 [S5] | |
| Global Rank | G5 | |
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| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
