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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Carex vallicola
|accepted_authority=Dewey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 32: 40. 1861
|year=1861
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex rusbyi
|authority=Mackenzie
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Carex vallicola var. rusbyi
|authority=(Mackenzie) F. J. Hermann
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Carex;Carex sect. Phaestoglochin;Carex vallicola
|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 vallicola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 286, 291
|treatment_page=page 290
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>without conspicuous rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 12–60 cm, 1–1.3 mm wide basally, 0.5–1 mm wide distally. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tight, green, fronts hyaline; ligules less than 2 mm, wider than long; widest leaf blades 1–3 mm wide, papillose adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 5–10 crowded spikes, 0.5–3 cm × 5–8 mm; proximal bracts to 1(–3) cm; spikes with 2–10 ascending perigynia. <b>Pistillate</b> scales hyaline or pale brown with green 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.8–3.2 × 1.8–2.6 mm, body slightly shorter than to length of perigynium, apex acute to short-awned. <b>Anthers</b> 1.8–2.3 mm. <b>Perigynia</b> brown, abaxial face 7–15-veined proximally, otherwise veinless or obscurely veined, 3.3–4 × 1.8–2.3 mm, base of perigynium spongy, thickened and longitudinally striate adaxially, spongy region 0.7–1 mm, margins serrulate to subentire distally; beak 0.5–1 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm. <b>Stigmas</b> straight or slightly twisted, 0.05 mm wide. <b>Achenes</b> ovate to circular, 1.6–2.7 × 1.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic hillsides, grasslands, thickets, open forests
|elevation=500–3000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Hidalgo).
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Carex vallicola
|author=
|authority=Dewey
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Carex rusbyi;Carex vallicola var. rusbyi
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry to mesic hillsides, grasslands, thickets, open forests
|elevation=500–3000 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Mexico (Hidalgo).
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1861
|special status=
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|genus=Carex
|section=Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
|species=Carex vallicola
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