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|accepted_name=Carex livida
|accepted_authority=(Wahlenberg) Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(1): 285. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Carex livide
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex limosa var. livida
|authority=Wahlenberg
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Paniceae;Carex livida
|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 livida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 427, 430
|treatment_page=page 429
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial, long-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 15–55 cm, smooth to scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: proximal sheaths pale brown to dark brown, occasionally red tinged, 4.5–8(–10) mm thick; ligules 1.2–3.9 mm, usually 0.6–1.5 times as long as wide; leaf blades very glaucous, channeled, 4.5–40 cm × 1.5–3.5(–6.5) mm, coriaceous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.2–8.59(–12) cm, 0.6–1.8 length of proximal bract; proximal bract 0.8–11 mm, sheath 0–1.2cm, blade 0.8-10 cm; pistillate spikes densely flowered, ovoid to short-cylindric, 0.7–2.5 cm × 4–5.5 mm wide; lateral spikes erect or ascending on stiff peduncles. <b>Pistillate</b> scales pale brown to dark purple-brown with broad green center and narrow hyaline margins, obtuse to acute. <b>Perigynia</b> strongly ascending in the spikes, glaucous, fusiform, 3–4.8(–5) × (1–)1.3–2 mm wide, heavily papillose; beak absent or minute, erect, straight. <b>Achenes</b> pale to dark brown, 2.1–2.5 × 1.2–1.8 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Boreal fens, calcareous floating mats
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Central America (Panama);South America;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>The distribution of <i>Carex livida</i> is very scattered; it is uncommon to rare over much of its range, especially in districts with predominantly acidic soils.</p><!--
--><p>Plants occurring disjunctly in acidic soils of the New Jersey pine barrens are unusually broad leaved, occasionally with leaves to 6.5 mm wide. These populations need further research to assess their status.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex livida
|author=
|authority=(Wahlenberg) Willdenow
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Carex limosa var. livida
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Boreal fens, calcareous floating mats
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Ind.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mont.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;Central America (Panama);South America;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_786.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Paniceae
|species=Carex livida
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