[2][4] Carex peckii grows in loose clumps, spreading by rhizomes to create colonies.

[5][6][4] Carex peckii is native to north-eastern, central and northern North America.

[8][6] Carex peckii has been identified as a host of the rust fungi Uromyces perigynius.

Albany, NY, 47: 166 in 1894[11] in the report of the state botanist for the year 1893 written by Charles H.

The species was described by Elliot C. Howe with additional specimens collected by Chester Dewey and Peter D. Knieskern.