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|accepted_name=Carex bebbii
|accepted_authority=(L. H. Bailey) Olney ex Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=37: 478. 1902
|year=1902
}}
|common_names=Carex de Bebb
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex tribuloides var. bebbii
|authority=L. H. Bailey
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Ovales;Carex bebbii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Carex sect. Ovales]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex bebbii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 370
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 20–90 cm; vegetative culms inconspicuous with few leaves clustered at apex. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths white-hyaline or green-veined, sometimes papillose, summits U-shaped, not distally expanded; distal ligules 2.2–6 mm; blades 3–4 per fertile culm, 11–25 cm × 1.7–4.2 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> mostly dense, brown, 1.1–3 cm × 5–14 mm; proximal internode 1–4 mm; 2d internode 1.4–3.4 mm; proximal bracts scalelike, with bristle tips shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b> 3–10, usually overlapping, ovoid to globose, 4–10 × 3–7 mm, base rounded or truncate, apex rounded. <b>Pistillate</b> scales reddish brown, usually with green or whitish to brown midstripe, lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm, shorter and narrower than perigynia, apex acuminate or acute. <b>Perigynia</b> ascending to ascending-spreading, light to dark reddish brown, conspicuously 3+-veined abaxially, faintly or basally 1–3-veined adaxially, winged to base, ovate or elliptic, plano-convex, 2.5–3.8 × (1–)1.2–2 mm, 0.35–0.45 mm thick, 1.9–2.5 times as long as wide, margin flat, including wing 0.2–0.5 mm wide, 1b ciliate-serrulate at least distally; beak reddish brown at tip, flat, ± ciliate-serrulate, abaxial suture with reddish brown-hyaline margin, distance from beak tip to achene 1.2–2.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> ovate or elliptic, 1–1.3 × 0.6–0.9 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick. <b>2n</b> = 68, 70.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Wet places with calcareous or neutral soils, gravelly lakeshores, stream banks, meadows, forest seeps
|elevation=0–2100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>In addition to typical perennial behavior, <i>Carex bebbii</i> may reach reproductive stage from seed in a single season, thus behaving as a facultative annual. <i>Carex athrostachya</i> and <i>C. crawfordii</i> may share this reproductive feature.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex bebbii
|author=
|authority=(L. H. Bailey) Olney ex Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex tribuloides var. bebbii
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early summer.
|habitat=Wet places with calcareous or neutral soils, gravelly lakeshores, stream banks, meadows, forest seeps
|elevation=0–2100 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Alaska;Colo.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1902
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_652.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Ovales
|species=Carex bebbii
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