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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex frankii
|accepted_authority=Kunth
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Pl.
|place=2: 498. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex stenolepis
|authority=Torrey
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex shortii
|authority=Steudel
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Squarrosae;Carex frankii
|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. Squarrosae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex frankii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 516
|treatment_page=page 518
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, short-rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 18–80 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2.5–11.5 mm wide, sparingly scabrous. <b>Spikes</b> 3–7(–9), erect; lateral spikes pistillate with few staminate flowers at base and rarely also at apex, narrowly elliptic, 12–50 × 7–13 mm; terminal spike usually staminate, sometimes gynecandrous, pistillate, or abortive, 6–45 × 2–6 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> scales narrow, with indistinct body, 3.6–9(–11) × 0.1–0.4 mm, apex with long, scabrous awn exceeding perigynium. <b>Staminate</b> scales loosely to irregularly imbricate with tips spreading, linear, 4.3–15 × 0.3–0.8 mm, apex with long, scabrous awn. <b>Perigynia</b> horizontal, 3.5–6 × 1.4–2.6 mm, minutely pustulate; beak 1.3–2.2 mm, smooth. <b>Achenes</b> obovoid, sides strongly concave, 1.4–2.1 × 1–1.4 mm, less than 2 times as long as wide; style deciduous, straight or sinuous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows and woods, muddy margins of lakes and ponds, roadside ditches
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Carex frankii</i> and the similar <i>C. aureolensis</i> are two of the most easily recognized species of sedge; they are identified by the approximate, erect pistillate spikes and the long-awned pistillate scales that exceed the perigynia bodies.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex frankii
|author=
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex shortii
|basionyms=Carex stenolepis
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Wet meadows and woods, muddy margins of lakes and ponds, roadside ditches
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Pl.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_968.xml
|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Squarrosae
|species=Carex frankii
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