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|accepted_name=Carex socialis
|accepted_authority=Mohlenbrock & Schwegman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=21: 77, fig. 1. 1969
|year=1969
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex socialis
|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. Phaestoglochin]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Carex socialis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 287, 460
|treatment_page=page 289
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with short-creeping rhizomes to 6 cm. <b>Culms</b> 20–70 cm, 1.2–1.8 mm wide basally, 0.4–0.7 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline; ligules less than 2 mm, wider than long; widest leaf blades 1.5–2.2 mm wide. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 3–5 spikes, 2.5–5 cm × 4–6 mm; proximal internodes more than 2 times as long as proximal spikes; proximal bracts to 5 cm; spikes with 4–9 ascending to spreading perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline with green midvein, ovate, 1.5–2.3 × 1–1.5 mm, body 1/2–3/4 length of perigynium, apex acute to awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> green, usually 7–11-veined abaxially, 3.2–4.2 × 0.7–1.3 mm, base of body spongy, thickened, longitudinally striate adaxially, spongy region 1–1.5 mm, margins serrulate distally; beak 0.7–1 mm, apical teeth 0.2–0.4 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> straight or slightly twisted or coiled, 0.03–0.06 mm wide. <b>Achenes</b> elliptic, 1.8–2.3 × 0.8–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 58.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid–late spring.
|habitat=Lowland deciduous forests, usually on clay soils
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mohlenbrock1969a
|text=Mohlenbrock, R. H. and J. E. Schwegman. 1969. A new species of Carex sect. Bracteosae. Brittonia 21: 77–79.
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name=Carex socialis
|author=
|authority=Mohlenbrock & Schwegman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid–late spring.
|habitat=Lowland deciduous forests, usually on clay soils
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=mohlenbrock1969a
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1969
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex socialis
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