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|accepted_name=Carex pigra
|accepted_authority=Naczi
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=7: 67, fig. 1. 1997
|year=1997
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Griseae;Carex pigra
|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. Griseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex pigra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 449, 457
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose; rhizome internodes 1.2–2.8 mm thick. <b>Culms</b> yellow-brown at base, 10–50 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths glabrous; blades glaucous, widest blades 6.1–12.3 mm wide, smooth abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.71–0.93 of culm height, rarely all spikes separate, peduncles of lateral spikes smooth, 0.4–11 cm; peduncles of terminal spikes 1.5–37(–62) mm, usually overlapping or shorter than distal lateral spike; proximal bract sheath loose, abaxially glabrous, sheath front slightly convex, elongated 0.2–2.2 mm beyond apex; ligules (3–)5.2–10.2 mm; distal bract slightly shorter than to much exceeding terminal spike. <b>Spikes</b> (3–)4–6, usually distal 2–3 overlapping; lateral spikes pistillate, longest ones with 11–25(–28) perigynia, 8–32 × 3.3–6.1(–6.8) mm, ratio of spike length (in mm) to flower number = (0.97–)1–1.3(–1.6); terminal spikes 6–32 × 1.8–3.3 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales 1.9–3.2(–4.5) × 1.3–2.2 mm, margins pale ferrugineous to whitish, entire, apex with awn 0.1–0.9(–1.9) mm. <b>Staminate</b> scales (3.9–)4.5–5.3 × 1.6–2 mm. <b>Anthers</b> 1.6–2.6 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> spirally imbricate, 42–56-veined, unwrinkled, narrowly ovoid, (3.7–)3.9–4.5(–4.7) × 1.5–2.2 mm, (1.9–)2.1–2.6(–2.8) times as long as wide, obtusely triangular in cross section, dull, base gradually tapered, apex gradually tapered; beak absent or straight, 0–0.2(–0.4) mm. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, 2.6–3.1 × (1.3–)1.4–1.6 mm, 0.5–0.63 times as long as perigynia, loosely enveloped by perigynia; stipe straight, 0.1–0.3(–0.5) mm; beak bent (0–)30–90°, (0.1–)0.2–0.4(–0.5) mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic to wet-mesic deciduous forests or occasionally in moist prairies, usually in acidic to slightly alkaline clays and loams
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex pigra</i> often associates with <i>C. blanda</i> and <i>C. planispicata</i>. The ranges of <i>C. pigra</i>, <i>C. flaccosperma</i>, and <i>C. glaucodea</i> overlap, although <i>C. pigra</i> is not commonly sympatric with those species. When growing with <i>C. flaccosperma</i>, <i>C. pigra</i> usually inhabits slightly drier sites, and when growing with <i>C. glaucodea</i>, <i>C. pigra</i> usually inhabits slightly moister sites. <i>Carex pigra</i> does not appear to form hybrids with either <i>C. flaccosperma</i> or <i>C. glaucodea</i>.</p>
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name=Carex pigra
|author=
|authority=Naczi
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring.
|habitat=Mesic to wet-mesic deciduous forests or occasionally in moist prairies, usually in acidic to slightly alkaline clays and loams
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=1997
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Griseae
|species=Carex pigra
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