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|accepted_name=Carex vaginata
|accepted_authority=Tausch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora
|place=4: 557. 1821
|year=1821
}}
|common_names=Carex engaîné
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex saltuensis
|authority=L. H. Bailey
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Paniceae;Carex vaginata
|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. Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex vaginata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 425, 427
|treatment_page=page 428
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 7–60 cm, ± smooth distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths bladeless, pale brown, slender, 0.7–2.8 mm diam., not or only very sparsely papillose; ligules 2–4.5 mm, longer than wide; blades of vegetative culms 5–40 cm × 1.5–4 mm; those of fertile culms green, flat, less than 10 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 6.5–25 cm, 2–5 times longer than proximal bracts; proximal bracts 2.5–8 cm, sheath 1–3.5 cm, blade 1–1.5 cm; pistillate spikes linear, 0.8–3 cm × 3–6.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales purple tinged, apex broadly acute or obtuse. <b>Perigynia</b> 3–15, the proximal loosely arranged, green to dark brown, often obscurely veined, 3.5–5 × 1.5–2.2 mm, smooth; beak slender, cylindric, (0.4–)0.6–1.8(–2.2) mm. <b>Achenes</b> light to dark brown, 2.2–3 × 1.2–1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Calcareous swamps, boggy thickets and woods
|elevation=30–1600 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>M. L. Fernald (1950) pointed out that North American plants sometimes segregated as <i>Carex</i> saltuensis do not appear to be sufficiently distinct to warrant recognition as a separate species. T. V. Egorova (1999) recognized both C. saltuensis and <i>C. vaginata</i>, with two subspecies, in North America. More research is clearly needed on this complex circumpolar entity. The inclusion of <i>C. vaginata</i> in sect. Paniceae is uncertain. Unlike other members of the group, <i>C. vaginata</i> lacks papillae on abaxial leaf epidermis, peduncle, and perigynium.</p>
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name=Carex vaginata
|author=
|authority=Tausch
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex saltuensis
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early–mid summer.
|habitat=Calcareous swamps, boggy thickets and woods
|elevation=30–1600 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.Y.;Vt.;Wis.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora
|publication year=1821
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Paniceae
|species=Carex vaginata
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