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|accepted_name=Carex pensylvanica
|accepted_authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encyl.
|place=3: 388. 1792
|year=1792
}}
|common_names=Carex de Pennsylvanie
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Acrocystis;Carex pensylvanica
|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. Acrocystis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex pensylvanica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 532, 534, 545, 554
|treatment_page=page 544
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely cespitose; rhizomes horizontally spreading, reddish brown to dark brown, (10–)40–100 mm, slender. <b>Culms</b> 10–45 cm, smooth to weakly scabrous distally; bases (remnants of old leaves) slightly fibrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades green, 0.5–3.6 mm wide, herbaceous, papillose to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially, blades of distal cauline leaves well developed. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually with both staminate and pistillate spikes; peduncles of staminate spikes 0.1–7.5 mm; proximal cauline bracts leaflike, usually shorter than inflorescences. <b>Spikes</b>: proximal pistillate spikes 1–3(–4) (basal spikes 0, rarely 1); cauline spikes overlapping or separated, with (3–)4–13 perigynia; staminate spikes 8–24 × 1.3–4 mm. <b>Scales</b>: pistillate scales dark reddish brown, with narrow white margins, ovate, 2–4 × 1.3–2.8 mm, equaling perigynium body, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate; staminate scales elliptic to ovate, 2.9–5.3 × 1.1–1.9 mm, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate. <b>Anthers</b> 1.8–4 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> pale green, veinless, obovoid, 2.2–3.4 × 1.1–1.5(–1.7) mm; beak straight, pale green, 0.5–0.9 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.4 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> 3. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, obovoid, obtusely trigonous in cross section, 1.3–2.3 × 0.9–1.4(–1.6) mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting early May–late Jul.
|habitat=Well-drained, acidic but cation-rich, sandy, rocky, and loamy soils under hardwood forest canopies, forest edges, savannas, “balds” and in rocky or sandy openings
|elevation=150–1500 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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name=Carex pensylvanica
|author=
|authority=Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting early May–late Jul.
|habitat=Well-drained, acidic but cation-rich, sandy, rocky, and loamy soils under hardwood forest canopies, forest edges, savannas, “balds” and in rocky or sandy openings
|elevation=150–1500 m
|distribution=Man.;Ont.;Que.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encyl.
|publication year=1792
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Acrocystis
|species=Carex pensylvanica
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